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By Shaun Abreu, NYC Councilmember District 7, and Dr. Janice Weinman, Executive Director, Education Through Music
A teacher shortage is coming to New York City. Baby boomers are retiring from teaching, and COVID stretched and stressed our educators beyond what any of us could have foreseen, leading to unprecedented levels of burnout.
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By Liam Quigley
Spanish trash containers will be at the vanguard of New York City’s “trash revolution.”
City records show the sanitation department is finalizing an order of up to 1,500 large bins from the Madrid-based company Contenur, and they will be installed in parking spaces across West Harlem starting in May, according to officials.
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By Michael McDowell
HARLEM, NY – P.A.’L.A.N.T.E, or People Against Landlord Abuse and Tenant Exploitation, is hosting its annual Demystifying Housing conference this week at Harlem’s Oberia Dempsey Center at 127 W. 127th Street in Harlem.
The conference, which began on Wednesday, is free to attend and open to all.
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By Paul Liotta
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — All New York City residential buildings with fewer than nine units, including single-family homes, will need to begin using approved trash cans in November, but they still have time to secure the new cans.
Mayor Eric Adams announced the new trash cans July 8 outside Gracie Mansion with Councilman Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) and Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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By Mohamed Farghaly
New York City’s “Sidewalk Slobs” program enforces strict sidewalk cleanliness regulations with increased fines for non-compliance, while a new bill empowers local sanitation departments to use surveillance cameras to address illegal dumping.
In a bid to maintain the city’s cleanliness, New York City is intensifying efforts to combat unsightly and hazardous conditions caused by neglectful property owners.
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On a beautiful and glorious Wednesday evening, July 10, 2024, The Office of Council Member Shaun Abreu and the David N. Dinkins Family co-hosted a private ceremony to celebrate the 97th Birthday of David N Dinkins, the 106th Mayor of New York City, and the street co-naming in his honor at Riverside Church in Harlem, New York.
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By Sophie Krichevsky
With Mayor Adams’ announcement earlier this month that residential buildings with one to nine units will be required to put their trash in bins with secure lids for collection, the Department of Sanitation’s newly minted 8 p.m. trash put-out time will become moot.
Come November, when the container requirement goes into effect, garbage from all one-to-nine-unit buildings will be able to hit the curb as early as 6 p.m.
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By Rosemary Misdary
The North Woods, 40 acres of dense woods containing waterfalls, boulders to climb and shade on a hot summer day, are Central Park’s largest forest. But local residents say rampant drug use over the last year has made the woods too dangerous.
Last week, the narrow winding paths were covered with discarded clothes, plastic shopping bags filled with human feces, uncapped syringes and an extraordinary amount of brightly colored drug vials and fentanyl capsules commonly known as
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By Angelica Ang
But as with many other community farms and gardens in New York City, the farm was threatened by Mayor Eric Adams’ budget cuts, which eliminated all funding for community composting in 2023.
Though the funding for the NYC Compost Project has been
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New York, NY – City Council Members united in calling out the Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission for trying to block voters’ rights and undermine local democracy by rushing the development of new proposals that disenfranchise New Yorkers from voting on an existing advice-and-consent ballot question in November. The elected representatives of districts throughout the city had urged the Mayor’s Commission to instead use its full term to fulfill its responsibility, thoroughly reviewing the City Charter and developing proposals for the 2025 General Election with more extensive policy assessment and public engagement.
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