🌱 NYC Mayor Adams Signs Rat Laws + Community College Without Heat

Good morning, New York City!

• Mayor Adams signed four laws yesterday to fight the city's rat problem.
• Rikers Island will remain under the city's management, a judge has ruled.
• NYC landlords have seen 38,000 empty rent-stabilized apartments this year.

But first, today's weather:

Cold with plenty of sunshine. High: 41 Low: 32.

Here are the top five stories today in New York City:

1. Mayor Eric Adams reaffirmed his hatred for rats on Friday by signing four bills into law that move the time to take out bagged trash from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and requires the city to establish rat mitigation zones by next Spring, making the city "squeaky clean." (New York City Patch)
2. Rikers Island will continue to operate under the city's management, after a judge ruled on Thursday against it being turned over to a federal receiver. The massive, almost 6,000-person facility has been under a federal court-appointed monitory since a class-action lawsuit filed by the city’s Legal Aid Society in 2011. (New York City Patch)
3. A state agency now says that New York City landlords have registered 38,000 vacant rent-stabilized apartments this year. That number is down from the roughly 60,000 previously reported vacant in 2021, and is more consistent with the past several years, New York’s Division of Homes and Community Renewal says. (THE CITY)
4. New York State's Cannabis Control Board is set to announce some recreational cannabis licenses on Monday. In the meantime pot dispensaries operating without licenses have been cropping up all across the city, in what one of 900 license applicants called "unfair competition." (Associated Press)
5. Bronx Community College moved almost all of its classes online last week as it continued to experience a lack of heat, which has been an intermittent problem this fall. BCC is CUNY's oldest community college, serving approximately 9,500 students. (Gothamist)

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Today in New York City:

• Thanksgiving turkey pick-up for families - Washington Heights (10 a.m.)
• Hearth & Harvest Festival - Historic Richmond Town (10 a.m.)
• NYC Afrobeats Fall Fest: Midtown Manhattan (4 p.m.)
• Illuminate The Farm Lantern Festival: Queens County Farm (5 p.m.)
• Dave Matthews Band Concert: Madison Square Garden (6:30 p.m.)

And on Sunday: A free book fair on the Upper West Side (1 p.m.)

Check out Patch's guide to the weekend!

From my notebook:

• These two wild turkeys strutting across the street in Staten Island might not be aware it's Thanksgiving next week! (WABC-TV)
• The disciplinary trial for two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of dancer and personal trainer Kawaski Trawick in 2019 in The Bronx has been scheduled for this Spring. (AMNY)
• A Ukrainian teenager who fled the war in his home country is set to play as second bassoonist at a youth concert at Carnegie Hall. (Subscription/New York Times)
• Queens travelers be aware: the 7 train is going to be partially suspended this weekend, between 34th Street-Hudson Yards and Queensboro Plaza. (Pix 11)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Saturday. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Dashiell Allen

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