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By Jessi Mitchell
NEW YORK — The Big Apple’s newly designated rat mitigation zones have the highest numbers of complaints and inspections, and they need the most help. Around one block of Hamilton Heights, the beasts find feasts of trash.
Videos showing rats flooding the trash on sidewalks have been flooding District 7 Council member Shaun Abreu’s inbox lately.
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By Stephon Johnson
The need for no-fee attorneys for people facing eviction in New York City is so great that nonprofit legal providers are asking the city to quadruple the budget for their services. But the City Council speaker says it’s the state that needs to step up.
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By News 12 Staff
A new resolution adopted Tuesday by the City Council is calling on the Department of Education to create a Jewish Heritage Day in city public schools.
The legislation was introduced by Council Member Shaun Abreu in an effort to combat antisemitism and celebrate diversity.
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HARLEM, New York (WABC) — Gas is back on for hundreds of residents at a NYCHA apartment complex in Harlem after three months without service.
NYCHA released a statement on Friday saying that gas had been restored to the Grant Houses located at West 125th Street in Harlem.
The gas was cut on January 9 after there was a discovery of a gas leak.
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By Sarah Belle Lin
Public hospital nurses rallied outside of Harlem Hospital on Tuesday demanding higher pay, on par with private-sector nurses, and better staffing levels across New York City’s municipal hospitals.
The nurses, who were joined by elected officials and community allies, shared their experiences at the annual Board of Directors meeting for New York City’s Health+Hospitals System, the country’s largest public healthcare system.
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By Shaun Abreu and Kevin Riley
Eugene Toussaint has been a public defender in Queens for over a decade. But with a caseload of more than 100 clients and scores of his colleagues leaving for better-paying jobs, he fears he may be reaching a breaking point.
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By Gus Saltonstall
HARLEM, NY — Mayor Eric Adams’ rat-busting crews are headed to a collection of New York City neighborhoods identified as popular rodent hangout spots, including Harlem.
Adams, along with the help of Harlem Council Member Shaun Abreu and other elected officials, ramped up the city’s war on rats with four pieces of legislation to reduce rat residency across the city, including a new push to identify targeted “rat mitigation zones”
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By Gus Saltonstall
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in Washington Heights has one of the world’s largest collections of Spanish art and literature — but it has been closed since 2017 due to renovations — and now its workers are on strike just a month before it is set to finally reopen.
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By Chris Sommerfeldt
A top attorney in Mayor Adams’ administration faced waves of criticism from City Council members Monday after refusing to offer support for a bill that would slow down Housing Court proceedings amid a recent uptick in New Yorkers going without legal representation in eviction cases.
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By Dean Moses
Elected officials and housing rights advocates rallied on Monday in City Hall Park to push for new bills aimed at funding the Right-to-Counsel.
Six years after the Right-to-Counsel law was passed, speakers lamented that they found themselves back to demand action on the topic.
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