The Adams administration has softened the mandate so that only large buildings are subject to composting fines, and even then will be given four warnings. Four thousand fines were handed out across the city in the first three weeks.
Our Town – By Hudson Burrows | April 21, 2025
Food scrap fines are being scraped at least temporarily for many users.
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The mayor’s office has said all fines will resume in 2026.
Patch – By David Luces | April 21, 2025
NEW YORK CITY —City officials and the Sanitation Department have decided to pause some of composting fines, just weeks after enforcing new rules citywide.
Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that “in an effort to facilitate even higher participation, we will conduct additional outreach and education on composting before issuing fines to the most persistent offenders who repeatedly refuse to compost.”
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amNY – By Adam Daly | April 18, 2025
New York City is suspending the issuance of composting fines for smaller residential buildings until 2026, city officials confirmed Friday, just two weeks after enforcement began under the city’s new mandatory composting law.
The move has drawn criticism from City Council members who say the Adams administration botched the rollout of the citywide composting program, which took effect last year as part of the
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The Gothamist – By Liam Quigley | April 18, 2025
In a major reversal, the Adams administration has ordered New York City sanitation inspectors to stop issuing fines to most buildings that break composting rules for the rest of the year.
Curbside composting has been mandatory since last October, and sanitation inspectors began enforcing the rules by issuing fines to buildings that didn’t separate organic waste on April 1.
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The City – By Samantha Maldonado | April 18, 2025
The Adams administration announced Friday it is relaxing its enforcement on violations of a new citywide composting mandate, just weeks after it began issuing fines.
Since October, all city residents have been required to separate their food waste and yard trimmings from other trash, and owners of properties with at least four apartments have had to set out bins for curbside collection.
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Daily News – By Chris Sommerfeldt | April 18, 2025
Randy Mastro, Mayor Adams’ top deputy at City Hall, ordered the Sanitation Department this week to stop fining most building owners over failing to comply with the city’s new mandatory composting rules — a reversal that comes despite the mayor’s strong backing of the program, sources told the Daily News on Friday.
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City Limits – By Daniel Parra | April 17, 2025
During a city council hearing, immigrants and their advocates shared stories of fraud, much of which is conducted over social media.
During a New York City Council hearing about immigration services fraud on Tuesday, one asylum seeker testified about how he had been tricked by someone who claimed to be his attorney.
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Crain’s New York Business – By Julianne Cuba | April 14, 2025
A Lower East Side-based nonprofit organization with a focus on education has sold a longtime Park Slope early childhood center to an anonymous private buyer for almost $13 million, city records show.
University Settlement, whose offerings include mental health and wellness services as well as programs focused on early childhood to older adulthood, is parting ways with 71 Lincoln Place.
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Gothamist – By Samir Ferdowsi | April 14, 2025
Two bills aimed at protecting against immigration services fraud will be up for debate in the City Council next week.
The City Council Committees on Consumer and Worker Protection as well as Immigration will have a joint hearing to crack down on fraudsters looking to prey on the influx of migrants in New York City.
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Office of the New York City Comptroller | April 10, 2025
Adams’ DOT abandoned Select Bus Service and dropped every bus initiative
New York, NY — New York Comptroller Brad Lander released a new report, Behind Schedule: How the New York City Bus System Slow Rolls Riders, on the performance of the City’s bus system, finding that bus riders traveled a mere 8.17 mph on average and faced delays in reaching their stops nearly a third of the time.
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