{"id":135263,"date":"2026-02-16T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135263\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:21:07","slug":"why-the-nyc-council-is-considering-a-ban-on-glue-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135263\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the NYC Council is considering a ban on glue traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">City Council<\/a> bill could, if enacted, prevent New Yorkers from using glue traps to keep mice and other critters out of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Newly elected Council Member Harvey Epstein, who represents parts of Lower Manhattan, announced on Feb. 12 a bill that, if turned into law, would ban the sale of glue traps \u2014 a means of pest control, typically made of small boards coated with an adhesive that mice, rats, and other critters get stuck upon before slowly dying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/nyc-council-proposed-ban-on-glue-traps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSticky situation: Why the NYC Council is considering a ban on glue traps &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A new City Council bill could, if enacted, prevent New Yorkers from using glue traps to keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[57452,57453,232,75,9,24,63,33124,57454,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-135263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-council-member-harvey-epstein","9":"tag-glue-traps","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-pest-control","16":"tag-pest-control-in-nyc","17":"tag-staten-island","18":"tag-staten-island-headlines","19":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}