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By Gus Saltonstall
The results are in for this year’s cycle of Participatory Budgeting on the Upper West Side and in Morningside Heights.
This week, both Councilmembers Gale Brewer and Shaun Abreu announced the winning neighborhood projects that they will each allocate $1 million in city funds to through this year’s budget.
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New York, NY—Today, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), elected officials, member organizations, allies, and immigrant New Yorkers held an NYC For All Families rally on the City Hall Steps to call for a New York City FY25 budget and legislation that prioritizes the needs of immigrant New Yorkers.
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By Clio Chang
After Flaco was found dead earlier this year with rat poison in his system (and an apparent case of pigeon herpes), Councilmember Shaun Abreu introduced a bill named for the Eurasian owl that would pilot the use of contraceptives instead of rodenticides to help control the city’s rat problem.
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By Mike Mishkin
Council Member Julie Menin is sponsoring new legislation which aims to decrease the volume of dog poop on New York City’s sidewalks.
At a recent hearing on street cleanliness, Menin presented Intro 281, a bill which “would require the Department of Sanitation to install and regularly fill dog waste bag dispensers on or next to all public litter baskets on city streets.”
“Nothing ruins a morning commute like stepping in a dog’s business.
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By Joseph Zuloaga and Rebecca Massel
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, New York City Council member Shaun Abreu, CC ’14, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jerry Nadler, CC ’69, (D-N.Y.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released individual statements on Sunday and Monday condemning recent reports of antisemitic incidents amid a rise in protest activity.
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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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