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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
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NUEVA YORK — Los legisladores de Nueva York están proponiendo normas para reducir la población de ratas y otros roedores usando anticonceptivos y prohibiendo las trampas de pegamento y venenos que las llevan a una muerte lenta y brutal.
Los políticos llevan mucho tiempo ideando formas creativas de combatir a los roedores, pero algunos legisladores ahora proponen medidas a nivel municipal y estatal para hacer más.
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By Carol Tannenhauser
Four Upper West Side legislators shared a Zoom screen Tuesday night to discuss e-bike safety (or the lack of it), but on at least one issue they were not all on the same page.
In an online forum sponsored by the UWS Coalition of Block Associations &
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By Maysoon Khan and Cedar Attanasio
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 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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