Tag: Department of Health
For 15 years, ever since Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani shared his disgust for ferrets and implied their owners were mentally ill in a now-infamous radio exchange, ferret owners in New York City have been battling a stigma enforced by policy. Ferrets, lumped by Guiliani’s administration in the same category as lions or tigers, were said […]
A few weeks ago the city’s health department warned residents of Bensonhurt that their neighborhood was on the precipice of a rabies outbreak. Now the spread of the fatal disease is serious enough that wildlife biologists are headed to Brooklyn and Queens to try and stop its spread. Back on August 21, DNAInfo reported that […]
A new Health Department report confirms what anyone who’s ever set foot in New York City already knows: this place is loud, and that’s annoying sometimes. According to the report, in fact, one in four New Yorkers complain about noise exposure — a number that, if anything, seems low. New Yorkers cite the usual suspects […]
According to New York City Administrative Code § 17-172, basically every place that serves food has to hang “a sign graphically depicting the Heimlich Maneuver or a comparable technique instructing on how to dislodge food from a choking person” in an area where it can be easily viewed by the public, or face a fine. […]
