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Trash bags sit on a sidewalk to be picked up by sanitation workers in Manhattan, New York City in October 2023. Austin Cope hide caption

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Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins

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U.S. will expand Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans

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A man walks out of a vaccination bus at a mobile vaccine clinic in Midtown Manhattan, Dec. 6, 2021. New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The vaccine mandate, which led to the firing of hundreds of city workers who declined to get the shots, will end on Friday, Adams said in a news release. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams visits the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 17. This week, he announced that officials will begin hospitalizing more homeless people by involuntarily providing care to those deemed to be in "psychiatric crisis." Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Jason Andrew/AP hide caption

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Mayor Eric Adams says gun violence is everyone's problem. Here's how NYC tackles it

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New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced on Tuesday he will be postponing his planned Jan.1 inauguration ceremony. Brittainy Newman/AP hide caption

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