{"id":153,"date":"2026-05-20T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?p=153"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:53:01","slug":"will-bird-sale-ban-take-flight-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/05\/20\/will-bird-sale-ban-take-flight-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Bird Sale Ban Take Flight in New York?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City Reporter \u2013\u2013 Councilmember\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityreporter.nyc\/2026\/03\/16\/glue-trap-ban-mice-rats-sale-city-council\/\">Harvey Epstein<\/a>, a Democrat from Manhattan, will introduce the bill that would prohibit the sale of some birds in pet shops. These include non-poultry birds like parrots, cockatiels, finches, parakeets, and macaws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityreporter.nyc\/2026\/05\/20\/bird-sale-ban-new-york-pet-shops\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Reporter \u2013\u2013 Councilmember\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityreporter.nyc\/2026\/03\/16\/glue-trap-ban-mice-rats-sale-city-council\/\">Harvey Epstein<\/a>, a Democrat from Manhattan, will introduce the bill that would prohibit the sale of some birds in pet shops. These include non-poultry birds like parrots, cockatiels, finches, parakeets, and macaws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityreporter.nyc\/2026\/05\/20\/bird-sale-ban-new-york-pet-shops\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}