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By Nia Prater
On Friday, as the city was shaken by the 4.8-magnitude earthquake in New Jersey, the response from state and city officials was less than inspiring.
An emergency alert from the city didn’t hit phones for a full half-hour after the shaking stopped.
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By Peter Senzamici
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — It’s time to vote on the Upper West Side for how to spend $1 million in public dollars.
Participatory budgeting projects have been finalized from both Upper West Side City Council Members, Gale Brewer and Shaun Abreu.
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By Gus Saltonstall
Over the weekend, West Side Rag reported on the finalist projects for the neighborhood as funded by Councilmember Gale Brewer’s participatory budgeting process. Brewer is not the only elected official allocating city funds to Upper West Side projects, though, Councilmember Shaun Abreu is also overseeing his own set of funding.
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By Ethan Stark-Miller
A City Council member wants to give New Yorkers a big discount whenever grocery stores charge them more for items than the lowest advertised price, amNewYork Metro has learned.
Under the proposed legislation, the text of which amNewYork Metro obtained, customers would have legal recourse to get products for free if what they are charged at the register is higher than the shelf price, sale price or advertised price, so long as the product is under $10.
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By Haley Brown
Two Orthodox Jewish men were pelted with unknown objects while walking on the Upper West Side on Sunday, cops and a city councilman say — the third possible antisemitic incident in the neighborhood over the weekend.
The two Jewish men, ages 65 and 19, were wearing “traditional garb including a headscarf and hat” while waiting to cross the north crosswalk at West 100th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan when a passing car tossed the objects at them a little after 9 p.m., according to police.
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By Duncan Freeman
Workers who support New York City’s community composting ecosystem rallied on the steps of City Hall Thursday to call on Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council to fully fund the eight nonprofits that collect and process food scraps around the city.
To comply with the initial 5-percent budget cut called for by the Adams administration last year, the Department of Sanitation cut the entirety of the $3 million community composting budget.
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New York, NY — The New York City Council Progressive Caucus today joined Comptroller Brad Lander, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the Association of Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), Housing Justice for All, New York City Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI), the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY (PSC-CUNY), CIR-SEIU, UAW-9A, United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and dozens of grassroots housing organizations to launch
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By Jacob Wallace
Budget cuts to New York City’s community composting program are “unacceptable,” Council Member Shaun Abreu, the new chair of the city’s Sanitation and Solid Waste Management committee, said during his first hearing of the session Tuesday. Restoration of the program’s funding, along with other organics issues, containerization and oversight of the city’s commercial waste zones are priorities for his committee and the council, said Abreu, who serves a district in Northern Manhattan.
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By Manuela Silva
Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday that all of Community Board 9 will receive on-street containers and new automated side-loading trucks starting in spring 2025 as an expansion of District 7’s trash containerization program, becoming the first fully-containerized district. While CB9 leaders say that they have not yet seen a plan for the program, they are excited about the announcement and hope to soon be able to provide feedback based on the pilot.
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By Michael Gartland
New York City middle school and high school students could soon be required to receive warnings about the negative impacts of social media under new legislation City Councilman Shaun Abreu plans to introduce next month.
Abreu’s bill would compel the city Department of Education to distribute facts at the beginning of each school year about social media addiction, its potential health impacts and the dangers posed by engaging with strangers online.
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