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By Emma G. Fitzsimmons
For nearly 60 years, New York City leaders have understood that they could not kill their way out of the rat problem.
Rats are prodigious breeders, with one pair having the potential to produce 15,000 descendants in a year.
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By Jessica Formoso and edited by Amanda Geffner
NEW YORK CITY – NYC Councilman Shaun Abreu is proposing a bill that will make it easier to tip deliveristas on food delivery apps. It’s a two-measure bill:
It was supposed to be a big win for delivery workers in New York City, but a new law requires that they be paid a certain wage.
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By Karen Yi
Food delivery apps would be required to allow customers to tip when they’re ordering instead of after they get their food under new legislation from a New York City lawmaker.
City Councilmember Shaun Abreu told Gothamist he plans to introduce two relevant measures during the City Council’s scheduled meeting on Thursday.
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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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