The Update with Brandon Julien

On #TheUpdate this Friday, if you're noticing that trash has been building up on the streets of the City of New York, it might be a drop in the bucket compared to what may happen come Monday. The city is bracing for a worker shortage as its COVID-19 vaccine mandate looms, and tens of thousands of municipal employees remain unvaccinated. They face a 5pm deadline to show proof of at least one dose,...

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

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James, the woman who helped push former governor Andrew Cuomo to resign with her bombshell report, is planning to take his old job. She'll be entering the race as a formidable candidate for the Democratic nomination that features current governor Kathy Hochul, who's seeking a full term in office. The former bursar of the City College o...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the candidates running to become the next mayor of New York City- Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa- lobbed accusations at each other during their second debate about palling around with gangsters and acting like children or clowns, but it ended on a surprisingly tender note involving cats and veganism. The Brooklyn...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the shooting epidemic on the streets of the City of New York has now made it's way underground. A man riding a northbound N train during yesterday's evening rush was shot in the leg when a other man armed with a gun approached and demanded his cell phone. The NYPD say that a 2-year-old girl was fatally struck by an SUV driven by her mother's boyfriend. The toddler's 23-...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, those damn pesky beavers are at it again. A family of them has been building dams near a small Hudson Valley town of Mechanicville that's imprading the flow of water into the small reservoir the town depends on. The beavers can build a dam in as little as two nights that can slow water flow and create algae on the reservoir. Police in Suffolk County on Long Island need y...

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!

On #TheUpdate this Friday, a judge has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to block the public and news media from jury selection in her trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City are preparing to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National L...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the two men running to become the next mayor of New York City, offered starkly different visions at their first debate about how to lead the nation's largest city out of the pandemic, improve public safety, and lead the city of nearly 9 million people for more powerful storms driven by...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Mayor De Blasio has almost guaranteed himself another vaccine fight with the unions representing city workers. New York City will require police officers, firefighters and other municipal workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 29th at 5pm or be placed on unpaid leave, the mayor said today, giving an ultimatum to public employees who've refused. An associ...

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, it's about time this happened. New York City's Board of Health has passed a resolution that names racism as a public health crisis, joining the growing list of state and local governments around the country that have done so in recent years. A judge now says that Cuba Gooding Jr. will go on trial in February in his New York City groping case. Prosecutors are exp...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, judges around the country are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. It's a drug for parasites that has been promoted by conservative commentators as a treatment despite a lack of evidence that it helps people with the virus. Eric Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president and the presumptive next mayor o...

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!

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, a supposed love triangle has turned deadly in Brooklyn. An off-duty NYPD officer is now in custody after authorities say she shot two women, one of whom she was intimately involved with. The shooting left one woman dead and the other injured. Nearly all the female and transgender inmates at Rikers Island will be temporarily transferred to state lockups. Critics say tho...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a project to build a rail link connecting New York City to LaGuardia Airport has been put on hold. The FAA had issued environmental approval in July, but recently had asked the Port Authority to reconsider in light of a lawsuit filed by neighborhood and environmental groups. A federal judge had ruled that New York must continue to allow health care workers to seek exe...

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the show went on, regardless of your politics. The annual Columbus Day parade returned to New York City after being cancelled last year because of the pandemic. Organizers say 35,000 marchers took part in the parade and tens of thousands more watched. On Long Island, police say that a driver who caused a crash that killed himself and four others in July was driv...

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!

On #TheUpdate this Friday, a newly released investigation says that Mayor De Blasio misused city resources by taking his security detail with him on trips during his ill-fated presidential run. It recommends that the mayor reimburse the NYPD for the more than $300,000 spent on those trips, including for letting his adult son use his police security detail as a free taxi service. Pfizer is asking t...

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

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Mama's Fried Chicken on 116 St in Harlem is the scene where two teens- ages 13 and 16- were shot, apparently by a 17-year old gunman who was quickly apprehended. The 13-year-old was shot in the head, but is expected to survive, while the 16-year-old was shot in the back. The victims and the gunman are part of rival crews, which are subsets of established gangs, and may...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, federal agents have raided the offices of Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins, who has clashed with city officials over his incendiary tweets and hard-line tactics. The union sent a statement to members that Mullins resigned to avoid hampering the union's operations. Officials have announced that the New York Public Library and its sister branches wi...