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By Alex Arger
It seems New York City leaders have again concluded that they can’t kill enough rat lives to solve their problem, so why not try to nip the issue at the bud instead?
The metropolis’ city council introduced a bill Thursday that would establish a “rat contraceptive”
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By Gabrielle Holtermann
Animal rights activists with Lights Out Coalition held a rally alongside City Council Member Shaun Abreu outside City Hall on Thursday, calling on the council to pass a package of three bills titled “Flaco’s Law.”
The set of bills is named after the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023 and quickly captured the hearts of the city and social media by storm before he died on Feb.
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By Haley Brown and Aneeta Bhole
Love is in the air for squeakhearts — and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents.
Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) has proposed a rat birth control program jointly run by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation — in the latest attempt to quell the plague.
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By John Dias
NEW YORK – Is birth control the best way to tackle the city’s growing rat population? That’s what New York City Council members are considering.
A set of bills were introduced Thursday that, if passed, may get better control of the rat population while also helping out other wild animals.
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By Katie Honan
The New York City Council on Thursday introduced a bill to protect the city’s wildlife — inspired by the death of Flaco the owl and other birds of prey sickened by eating poisoned rats.
“Flaco’s Law” would include changes to how the city mitigates its rat population, encouraging a different kind of birth control for the rodents — instead of poison.
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By Max Rivlin-Nadler
From the moment of his escape from the Central Park Zoo, the inherent tragedy of Flaco’s freedom was written in the stars (the rat poison and pigeon herpes did the actual killing). But in death, will Flaco go on to help save thousands of other birds?
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NEW YORK (WABC) — A New York City Councilman introduced a package of bills in honor of the beloved celebrity owl who died after surviving in the wild on his own for more than a year after leaving the Central Park Zoo.
Elected officials, scientists, bird experts and New Yorkers held a City Hall rally Thursday to announce the introduction of the historic package of bills.
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By Ramsey Khalifeh
A New York City lawmaker wants to avenge avian icon Flaco, who died with a dangerous amount of rodenticide in his system, by sterilizing rats.
Councilmember Shaun Abreu introduced a bill on Thursday to test out a program to distribute contraceptive rat pellets in his Upper Manhattan district.
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By Miranda Lu and Tsehai Alfred
Mayor Eric Adams hosted a community conversation at the Manhattanville Community Center on Monday, the latest in a series of public meetings offering residents and community stakeholders the opportunity to engage in direct dialogue with the administration.
Along with a panel of other officials, Adams spoke to a full room of community members on questions spanning a range of issues affecting West Harlem and New York City as a whole, including the citywide trash containerization rollout, influx of people seeking asylum, and safety concerns in New York City Housing Authority complexes.
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By Peter Senzamici
HARLEM, NY — Parks, trees, schools: take your pick.
It’s time for West Harlem to vote on how to spend $1 million in public dollars.
Participatory budgeting projects have been finalized from Harlem City Council Member Shaun Abreu.
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