New York Post – By Nicole Rosenthal | May 15, 2025
These Brooklyn musicians are playing to deaf ears.
Tenants at a band rehearsal space near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are taking matters into their own hands and pooling funds to hire a private company to test for cancer-causing vapors inside the building after the landlord refused to let state inspectors inside.
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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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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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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Brooklyn Eagle Staff | March 10, 2025
CITYWIDE — CITY RESIDENTS CAN GET NEW NYC TRASH BINS FREE OF CHARGE, thanks to a bill that the City Council passed on Thursday, Feb. 27, and that state Assemblymember William Colton is applauding. The bill, Intro 1126-2024, which, as of press time on Monday, March 10, awaits Mayor Eric Adams’ signature, mandates free distribution of the new trash bins – dubbed the NYC bin – to owners of single-family and two-family homes that are enrolled in the STAR or Enhanced STAR property tax
relief programs.
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Testimony of Council Member Shahana Hanif to the Department of Sanitation on Final Rule Regarding the Residential Collection of Designated Recyclable Materials to Require the Source Separation of Organic Waste
Good morning! I’m Council Member Shahana Hanif and I represent the 39th Council District in Brooklyn.
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