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The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Harlem will hold its 26th annual Blessing of the Bicycles service on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at 9:00 am.
This event, preceding Bike New York’s TD Five Boro Bike Tour, welcomes cyclists worldwide.
Led by the Very Reverend Patrick Malloy, attendees will receive a blessing for a safe cycling season, with holy water sprinkled on each bicycle.
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By Kristin Thorne
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — New York City’s curbside composting is not off to a good start with low participation, according to a recent study, just as the Adams administration pulled funding for a program that could help encourage people to compost.
The city’s community composting program, which has been in existence since the 1990’s, teaches New Yorkers what composting is and how to do it.
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By the Associated Press
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.
Politicians have long come up with creative ways to battle the rodents, but some lawmakers are now proposing city and statewide measures to do more.
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By Eric A. Goldstein
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (Parks Department) is planning to evict a nationally recognized community composting operation from its longtime home under the 59th Street bridge in Long Island City. The agency’s rationale: It needs the site for the parking of Parks Department motor vehicles.
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Shaun Abreu, Council Member for District 7 (Manhattan Valley, Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Hamilton Heights), and Ligia Guallpa, executive director of the Workers Justice Project, talk about proposed changes to how tipping on delivery apps works—and Council Member Abreu discusses his plan to control the rat population.
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By Nicholas Liu
Rats are among the world’s most prolific mammal breeders, with a single female able to spawn 15,000 descendants in a single year. The realization that pruning the surging population by killing them off is an impossible task has New York politicians scrambling to find other ways to turn the tide–primarily by curbing their population growth.
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By Michael Gartland
Two City Council members are proposing the city provide overdose reversal medication to child care centers in response to the tragic death of an infant boy in September, the Daily News has learned.
The proposal, which is outlined in a bill Council members Shaun Abreu and Pierina Sanchez plan to introduce Thursday, would create the Child Care Opioid Antagonist Program to allow child care centers and day cares to receive doses of naloxone through the city Health Department.
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By Surina Venkat
The George Bruce Library on 518 W 125th St. held its grand reopening on Monday, marking the end of nearly five months of closure due to renovations. Its reopening drew West Harlem residents of all ages, with many expressing appreciation for the library’s new refurbished features.
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By Hiyah Zaidi
New York City is considering giving contraceptives to rats to control their numbers and apparently, it’s ‘better than pizza’.
As the city continues its 200-year-long battle with rats, the state’s authorities have realised that killing them is not an effective solution.
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By Maysoon Khan, Cedar Attanasio, and the Associated Press
