The Update with Brandon Julien

It's Day 58 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, mourning NYPD officers will give a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partners a week ago. A funeral mass for officer Jason Rivera is today at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Both he and his partner, Wilbert Mora, gree up in the city's ethnic enclaves and had hoped to help the department build bridges with the community....

It's Day 57 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, as he prepares to be laid to rest at St. Patrick's Cathedral, officer Jason Rivera was no stranger to the tensions between the NYPD and some communities. He'd seen it up close, growing up in his heavily Dominican neighborhood in Inwood. And it's also personal, like when he saw his brother get pulled from a taxi and frisked. His part...

It's Day 56 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the city was handed another gut punch. Two days after shooter Lashawn McNeil died of his injuries in the shooting that killed officer Jason Rivera, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced on Twitter that Rivera's partner, officer Wilbert Mora died of his injuries. He was only 27. An appeals judge has restored the state's mask...

It's Day 55 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Mayor Adams has announced efforts to seize illegal guns and institute a multi-pronged plan to tackle the issue. It's now at the forefront of his administration after the starting string of violence that's shaken the city. It's also emboldened critics who say that criminal justice reforms and lax prosecutors are to blame for eroding h...

It's Day 54 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, this city, still feeling from a spate of violence is preparing to lay Officer Jason Rivera to rest after he was killed last week. He's being hailed as an inspiration to his immigrant community, as investigators sought to make sense of the domestic dispute that also left Rivera's partner, Officer Wilbert Mora "fighting for his life." I...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

It's Day 51 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, could Ghislane Maxwell get a new trial? She's formally requested one, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges. In a letter to Judge Allison Nathan, Maxwell lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said that the motion for a new trial had been filed under seal and requested that all submissions related to "Juror No. 50 remain u...

It's Day 50 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, there's been yet another shooting in the Bronx. An 11-month-old girl is in critical condition after being shot in the face while in a parked car. The NYPD says that the child and her mother were in the vehicle while the father was in a grocery store. Her 1st birthday is in just a few days. The teenager who admitted to the stabbing o...

It's Day 49 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Attorney General Letitia James' office says its civil investigation has uncovered evidence that former President Trump's company used "fraudulent or misleading" asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits. In a court filing late yesterday, evidence showed that the Trump Organization routinely misrepresented the value of its prop...

It's Day 48 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the streets of Brooklyn are turning deadly once again. Police say that a 15-year-old girl was found dead on Bedford Ave and Avenue P after she apparently was hit by a school bus around 8am Saturday. No city DOE buses were on the road, as schools were closed for the MLK holiday. New York tenants and homeowners have lost some protectio...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

It's Day 44 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, Mayor Adams might be having a change of heart. He's considering allowing NYC public schools to return to some form of virtual learning as the city continues to weather a wave of coronavirus cases. That would be a reversal from his pledge to keep children in schools, but while he said at a news conference that he still believes the saf...

It's Day 40 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, hospitals in the Bronx are working around the clock to save the lives of multiple people that were gravely injured by inhaling smoke in a fire that was the deadliest the city has seen in nearly 30 years. Dozens are still hospitalized, and as many as 13 were still in critical condition after the fire that killed 19 people, nine of them...

It's Day 43 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, President Biden is highlighting the federal government's effort to "surge" medical personnel to help overwhelmed medical facilities. The effort comes amid the upswing in coronavirus cases and staff shortages due to the omicron varient. Biden says that military medical terms are being deployed to Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New...

It's Day 42 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, are we at a COVID-19 turning point? State health officials say that New York will no longer require local health departments to conduct contract tracing for people who test positive for COVID-19. Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett says that the shift will help public health staff across the state focus on testing and vaccination....

It's Day 41 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, investigators are digging deeper as they try to determine why safety doors failed to close in the deadly Bronx fire. The failures allowed thick smoke to billow through the building and kill 17 people, including 8 children in the city's deadliest fire in more than 30 years. The northeast is getting slammed with extreme cold that was e...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

It's Day 37 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, help is on the way for New Yorkers needing pandemic rental aid and temporary protection from eviction as a judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the state to reopen its application portal in three business days. It comes at a perfect time as the statewide moratorium expires January 15th. A juror at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial...

It's Day 36 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, there's another challenge to New York City's sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace- this time a lawsuit in federal court. It asserts that the mandate didn't have a mechanism allowing businesses to appeal. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers say that she's requesting...

It's Day 35 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, could former Governor Andrew Cuomo make a political comeback? It may be in the cards as he won't face criminal prosecution over an allegation that he fondled an aide. Albany's top prosecutor says he's dropping the case because he couldn't prove it. In her State of the State address today, Governor Hochul and the legislature is goin...

It's Day 34 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, while Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is deciding whether to charge former President Trump with a crime, Attorney General Letitia James is firing the first shot. She recently issued subpoenas to Trump, his son Don Jr., and his daughter Ivanka, seeking testimony and documents "in connection with an investigation into the valuation of propert...