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By Isha Banerjee
Reduced rat sightings and cleaner streets may be in the near future for West Harlem residents. As a part of a pilot program by the New York City Council, large containers have replaced bags of trash on select streets and school districts in West Harlem.
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By Isha Banerjee
District 7 Council member Shaun Abreu, CC ’14, introduced a City Council resolution Thursday afternoon calling on the New York City Department of Education to establish a curriculum on machine learning and the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students.
Abreu’s bill cites the widespread use of AI as necessitating new guidance within the city’s public schools.
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By Gus Saltonstall
With the New York Mets and Yankees struggling all season, and Aaron Rodgers hurt in his Jets debut, local sports fans haven’t had much to cheer about in recent months.
But New York City Councilmember Shaun Abreu, who represents the majority of the Upper West Side above 96th Street, is looking to create an alternative kind of sporting excitement.
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By Jessi Mitchell
NEW YORK – New rat mitigation efforts on the west side of Harlem are about to face their first big test when students return to school next week. A few big new waste bins aim to reduce rats’ access to trash.
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By Sarah Belle Lin
Just over a dozen schools in Harlem have received trash containers to prevent rodents from diving into loose trash piles.
The effort to install rat-proof trash containers was led by Council Member Shaun Abreu (D-7), who announced his efforts to “start containerizing our trash” on the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.
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HARLEM, New York — A street in Harlem has been co-named after the late DJ Jinx Paul.
As of Saturday, the intersection of W. 136th Street and Amsterdam Avenue bears the name of the popular La Mega 97.9 radio personality.
DJ Jinx Paul, whose real name was Jean Paul Guerrero, was killed in a 2016 hit-and-run in Brooklyn.
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By Gus Saltonstall
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The record-high $107 billion budget passed by the City Council on the last day of June includes millions of dollars coming to the Upper West Side.
The local funding includes improvements to schools, housing, and parks in the neighborhood.
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By Ethan Stark-Miller
“Rats do not run our city,” famous rodent-hater Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed in City Hall Wednesday.
Adams announced June 28 that he is escalating his war against rats and highlighted two proposed rules aimed at reducing mountains of unsightly black garbage bags that line city streets in order to cut off the four-legged creatures’ main food source.
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By Tim Balk and Chris Sommerfeldt
A majority of the City Council has signed a letter calling on Mayor Adams to add at least $195 million for legal service providers to next year’s budget, warning that the city-supported lawyers face a “funding crisis.”
The letter, carrying signatures from 26 of the Council’s 51 members, said local right-to-counsel providers and public defenders need salary increases to ensure free legal services are available to millions of New Yorkers who rely on them.
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One of our city’s most important and effective tenant protections is in the midst of a funding crisis, and low-income New Yorkers are suffering the consequences.
NYC’s landmark Right to Counsel program, launched in 2017, was developed with the intention of ensuring that all low-income New Yorkers could access free legal representation in housing court, preventing unnecessary evictions that contribute to homelessness.
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