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By City & State
Council Member Shaun Abreu, a former tenant rights lawyer, prevailed in a crowded primary in 2021 and then became the first Latino to represent his Upper Manhattan district. As chair of the Committee of Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, Abreu has pushed to restore sanitation funding and transition the city to new rodent-proof bins.
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By Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Micah Lasher, & Council Member Shaun Abreu
Dear Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks:
We thank you for the City’s decision to provide many New York City students with OMNY Cards that give them free 24-hour access to NYC subways and buses up to four rides per day, 365 days per year.
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By Nicole Rivard and Scott Smith
“Flaco’s Law,” a new bill introduced in April by Council Member Shaun Abreu, would at least eliminate rodenticides in two NYC neighborhoods as part of a rodent birth control pilot program, if it passes. Dr. Loretta Mayer, co-founder of Wisdom GoodWorks, has been working with Abreu and educating him about the non-profit’s fertility control GoodBites, which are plant-based pellets and function as a food supplement for rats and mice, so they are a healthier meal for the city’s wildlife in addition to being an effective population-control measure.
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By Gus Saltonstall
Abreu, who also spoke to the Rag, answered on the importance of hosting the rally on the Upper West Side.
“Verdi Square is a place where West Siders, elected officials, and Manhattanites come together to make sure we’re taking the message home,” Abreu told the Rag.
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By Anna Leah
North Manhattan native and chair of City Council’s Sanitation Committee Shaun Abreu helped bring the containerization pilot program to Morningside and Hamilton Heights last fall, which he represents. The program led to 68% fewer rats spotted.
“That was not a campaign promise, but it was a promise for my girlfriend,” he joked, recalling her jumping as they walked the city.
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By Jack Engel
“Columbia is the biggest private landowner in New York City, and that’s a big deal in a city that desperately needs more housing and lower rents,” Councilmember Shaun Abreu CC ’14, who represents District 7, wrote in a statement to Sundial.
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The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine has received $1.5 million in city funding to support a larger capital campaign to renovate Synod Hall.
Synod Hall is a historic building on the Cathedral’s 11-acre campus.
With the support of New York City Council including Speaker Adrienne Adams and City Council Member Shaun Abreu, the Cathedral’s goal is to transform Synod Hall into a larger community hub of
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By Jeongyoon Han
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Weather conditions on the East Coast forced some flight cancellations to Chicago late Sunday night — including the flight that two New York delegates, Erik Bottcher and Allen Roskoff, along with Shaun Abreu, who is a member of the DNC Rules Committee, were supposed to be on.
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By Emily Ngo
ROAD TRIPPING: Severe storms in the New York area scrambled flights out of the city and made for travel nightmares for delegates trying to get to Chicago in time for Harris’ ceremonial nomination.
Several, like Assemblymember Grace Lee, were stuck in a frustrating cycle of rebooking flights just to have them canceled.
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By Shaun Abreu, NYC Councilmember District 7, and Dr. Janice Weinman, Executive Director, Education Through Music
A teacher shortage is coming to New York City. Baby boomers are retiring from teaching, and COVID stretched and stressed our educators beyond what any of us could have foreseen, leading to unprecedented levels of burnout.
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