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District 39

Shahana Hanif

Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and the Columbia Waterfront

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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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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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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Wednesday, April 10, 2025

Press Contacts: Reed Dunlea, rdunlea@nyic.org, 929-923-8863
Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org, 347-201-2768

New York—Today, the ICE Out! NYC Coalition, Shut Rikers Campaign, New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), Make the Road Action, Bronx Defenders, the Immigrant Defense Project, the Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice, elected officials, immigrants and people directly impacted by detention at Rikers held a rally and press conference outside City Hall to denounce an executive order issued by the Mayor on Tuesday allowing ICE to establish an office within Rikers Island jail.

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197 Bond Street, 1st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: (718) 499-1090

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250 Broadway, Suite 1731
New York, NY 10007
Phone: 212-788-6969

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