{"id":212562,"date":"2026-04-28T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:51:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-yonkers-increases-fines-for-failure-to-pick-up-dog-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212562\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Yonkers Increases Fines For Failure To Pick Up Dog Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Residents who fail to pick up after their dogs will now face higher fines in Yonkers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1349809803653818\/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZZn_xSoybOP2cJy-OXJrmFQMgsWBORoFlmV3CFpUFuhCUKWM1LkLOyppSt1NwpTW6Wze5w2PHW9ifGRgpU9MUoMt0h9lpsWNsQ2x1uep8mOscncVb3W3ksLz29Y6ohqWrSi94IpmCZAspXwqyHiZxrl1x0iWEzxqxB7OfAjecXNUvOpNbU1gncdtVj-H87D8lWwoKKxUpdblRKic4PJcoZM&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Spano<\/a> announced on Monday that the city council approved legislation reclassifying the act from a Class III to a Class II offense.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The original fine of $1,500 has risen to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city says dog waste is among residents\u2019 top reported complaints.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Nearly 100 summonses have been issued since February.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Spano says more bags and garbage cans have been added across the city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For more information, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yonkersny.gov\/m\/newsflash\/home\/detail\/2106\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents who fail to pick up after their dogs will now face higher fines in Yonkers. Mayor Mike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212562","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=212562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}