October 16, 2023: Midday News

An Israeli family visiting New York relatives gives their reaction to the Hamas attack in their home country. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams and city officials broke ground today on the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in East Flatbush with an expected completion in 2025. Also, Election Day is in three weeks. And in some parts of the city, there are heated contests for local Council seats. WNYC’s senior politics reporter Brigid Bergin joins us with what we need to know before we walk into that voting booth. Finally, on Friday, thousands of people took to the streets in Times Square and in Brooklyn, to protest the Israeli bombardment of Gaza that has followed that attack. But although law enforcement said it was ready for possible violence, those protests were peaceful. WNYC's Bahar Ostadan was at one of those protests.