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New Yorkers Complain About Rats, City Struggles to Respond
NEW YORK—It’s been almost a year since Jenice Ruiz noticed a rodent problem in her walk-up apartment building in Hamilton Heights. The tenants tried to get help by calling 311, the city’s complaint call system, but a solution is nowhere in sight.
NY Local Officials Won’t Let Manhattan Upper East Side Garbage Station Get Built
NEW YORK—Though construction for the 91st St. Upper East Side garbage station is already underway and slated for completion by March 2016, city and state elected officials opposed to its existence are not letting up.
