FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 5, 2025
Press Contact: Mus Lamia | mlamia@council.nyc.gov
Council Member Shahana Hanif Announces $1.5 Million in Community-Funded Projects, along with Record-Breaking Turnout and School Engagement in District 39’s Participatory Budgeting
Brooklyn, NY | Yesterday, Council Member Shahana Hanif announced the winning project proposals of the 2024-2025 Participatory Budgeting (PB) Cycle, which saw the highest participation in the district’s 14-year PB history.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2025
Press Contact: Mus Lamia | mlamia@council.nyc.gov, (646) 353-4549
Legislation would create a clear order of operations in the hiring process to shield workers from employment verification misuse
New York, NY | On May Day, New York City Council Member Shahana Hanif introduced Intro.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Raanan Geberer | April 25, 2025
BOERUM HILL — Plans to transform a city-owned parking lot in Boerum Hill into a new rent-stabilized senior housing development were announced Thursday by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The dilapidated lot on Third Avenue, between Bergen and Wyckoff Streets, will be converted into approximately 68 units of affordable senior housing.
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AMNY – By Adam Daly | April 24, 2025
The City Council on Thursday approved a broad legislative package aimed at strengthening civil rights protections and healthcare access for transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) individuals, marking one of the most comprehensive local efforts in the nation to safeguard gender-diverse communities.
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Crain’s New York Business – By Amanda D’Ambrosio | April 25, 2025
The City Council passed a slate of bills on Thursday to bolster legal protections for people
seeking gender-arming services.
The legislation comes months after local hospitals – including NYU Langone and Mount
Sinai – abruptly halted care for patients under 19 following an executive order that
threatened to pull federal funding from facilities providing services including puberty
blockers, hormone therapies or gender-arming surgeries to minors.
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Gay City News – By Matt Tracy | April 24, 2025
Standing alongside the co-chairs of the City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus, dozens of advocates fed up with attacks on gender-affirming care huddled on the steps of City Hall on April 24 and chanted, “When trans rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”
The rally set the stage for an eventful day at City Hall just hours before lawmakers approved a package of bills intended to protect gender-affirming care across the five boroughs after several hospitals either cancelled appointments or otherwise pulled back on care for youth and some adults in recent months as a result of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year.
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New York City Council – Progressive Caucus | April 24, 2025
We write this letter as the New York City Council Progressive Caucus representing over 3 million
people, many of whom are students, faculty and staff at your institutions. As federal authorities
carry out an extreme MAGA agenda that threatens to re-segregate and defund our institutions
and disappears countless students, we call upon you to step up and defend our constituents.
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WNYC News | April 23, 2025
Councilmember Shahana Hanif, the primary sponsor of the mandatory composting law in New York City, is pushing back against the Adams’ administration’s decision to stop fines to most buildings that break composting rules for the rest of the year.
That move came just weeks after the city began issuing fines for composting mandates in the first place.
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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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