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By Jacob Wallace
Dive Brief:
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By Barbara Russo-Lennon
Litterbugs will have a tougher fight on their hands as the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams agreed upon a new sanitation budget that council members say will help the Big Apple get cleaner and greener.
City Council Member Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan), chair of the council’s Committee of Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, announced Sunday the restoration of funding — and additional cash — for
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By Gus Saltonstall
Over the past month and a half, illegal smoke shops have been forcibly shuttered at an unprecedented rate in New York City, according to a news release from Mayor Eric Adams. And that includes on the Upper West Side.
At the beginning of May, Mayor Adams unveiled
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By Vianella Burns
HARLEM, NY — One of the city’s beloved summer traditions, the Riverside Park goats, will return to the community in July, and this time they are coming to Harlem.
Joining the Riverside Park Conservancy for their fifth summer, the goats are being assigned a new job site in Riverside Park at West 143rd Street, north of their previous location on 120th Street, where they will munch on poison ivy and other invasive plants.
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By Hadassa Kalatizadeh
On Friday, Grubhub, Doordash and UberEats were on the hot seat at a City Council hearing, in which seven laws were proposed to regulate the delivery business. As reported by the NY Post, the three- hour long City Council hearing featured complaints from delivery
drivers who griped about low tips and safety conditions.
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By René Albisser
Todo es importante en un sistema de transporte masivo. El diseño de las estaciones, la tecnología usada en las máquinas, la correcta operación de trenes y tranvías, el mantenimiento de estos, la logística de ingreso y salida de los usuarios y por supuesto, y no menos importante, la higiene del sistema.
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By Lisa Fickenscher and Caitlin McCormack
Food delivery drivers on Friday admitted low tips and a lack of transparency from “greedy apps” has pushed them to make reckless decisions on Big Apple roads during a heated City Council hearing on Friday.
“We need protection against these greedy apps that care more about their profits than our safety,” Doordash deliveryman Antonio Solis told the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protections.
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By Claudia Irizarry Aponte
The City Council is weighing a bill that would force food delivery apps to offer customers the option to tip drivers up front, after major platforms removed or changed tipping options at checkout last winter when a minimum pay law for delivery workers went into effect.
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By Brittany Kriegstein
Delivery apps have deployed armies of e-bikes on the streets and sidewalks of New York City and the City Council is looking for ways to make those companies responsible for the myriad health and safety concerns that have erupted as a result.
The Council’s Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection debated
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By Spectrum News Staff
City lawmakers are weighing a series of bills concerning delivery workers and food delivery apps.
One would return the tipping option to a customer’s checkout before they submit their order. The other would require the minimum gratuity suggestion to be set at 10% of an order’s cost.
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