{"id":294,"date":"2024-09-17T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=294"},"modified":"2024-09-20T19:15:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T19:15:21","slug":"npr-officials-in-new-york-say-they-have-a-solution-to-the-citys-rat-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/09\/17\/npr-officials-in-new-york-say-they-have-a-solution-to-the-citys-rat-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Officials in New York say they have a solution to the city&#8217;s rat problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/17\/nx-s1-5115747\/officials-in-new-york-say-they-have-a-solution-to-the-citys-rat-problem\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jeongyoon Han<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HAN: The council member in question, Shaun Abreu, knows a thing or two about rats. When he was younger, rats chewed up his grandmother&#8217;s furniture and infested his uncle&#8217;s closet.<\/p>\n<p>SHAUN ABREU: Rats are a very New York City problem.<\/p>\n<p>HAN: So when Abreu saw Mahaney&#8217;s tweet, he met with the sanitation department to figure out a solution. They came up with a pilot trash program in West Harlem where people dump trash into large containers the size of about two parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p>ABREU: The best way to handle it is by shutting off the food supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/17\/nx-s1-5115747\/officials-in-new-york-say-they-have-a-solution-to-the-citys-rat-problem\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jeongyoon Han<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HAN: The council member in question, Shaun Abreu, knows a thing or two about rats. When he was younger, rats chewed up his grandmother&#8217;s furniture and infested his uncle&#8217;s closet.<\/p>\n<p>SHAUN ABREU: Rats are a very New York City problem.<\/p>\n<p>HAN: So when Abreu saw Mahaney&#8217;s tweet, he met with the sanitation department to figure out a solution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/09\/17\/npr-officials-in-new-york-say-they-have-a-solution-to-the-citys-rat-problem\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}