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District 7

Majority Leader Shaun Abreu

Upper West Side (Central), Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, Manhattanville-West Harlem, Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Washington Heights (South)

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Por The Associated Press

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 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 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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By Haley Brown and Aneeta Bhole

Love is in the air for squeakhearts — and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents.

Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) has proposed a rat birth control program jointly run by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation — in the latest attempt to quell the plague.

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By Katie Honan

The New York City Council on Thursday introduced a bill to protect the city’s wildlife — inspired by the death of Flaco the owl and other birds of prey sickened by eating poisoned rats.

“Flaco’s Law” would include changes to how the city mitigates its rat population, encouraging a different kind of birth control for the rodents — instead of poison. 

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