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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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Columbia President Minouche Shafik welcomed Barnard President Laura Rosenbury, Teachers College President Thomas Bailey, and New York City Council member Shaun Abreu to the Manhattanville Campus on September 20 to rally students, faculty, staff, Morningside Heights and West Harlem community partners, and neighbors to the third day of the Great Broadway Sweep. 

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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 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 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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