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August 16, 2023: Evening Roundup

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NYC NOW
Episode • Aug 16, 2023 • 9m
An emergency shelter in Queens is now open and welcoming up to 1,000 asylum seekers. Plus, concertgoers are asking for immediate safety improvements to the neighborhood outside the Brooklyn Mirage, after two men were found dead near the venue earlier this summer. And finally, WNYC’s Ramsey Khalifeh takes us to a Brooklyn backyard where minority artists have found refuge in words.

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