{"id":323042,"date":"2026-08-17T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323042\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:04:52","slug":"lights-out-push-follows-death-of-beloved-owl-flaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323042\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lights Out&#8217; push follows death of beloved owl Flaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is known as the city that never sleeps, but a new bill is asking for some of those lights to go out.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLights Out\u201d legislation would target unnecessary lighting in an effort to reduce light pollution and energy use across the city. The push was also inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/manhattan\/news\/2024\/02\/24\/flaco-central-park-zoo-owl-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death of Flaco<\/a>, the beloved owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo and later died after crashing into a building on the Upper West Side.<\/p>\n<p>His death renewed attention on the dangers bright, reflective buildings can pose to birds, particularly during migration.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Harvey Epstein, one of the lawmakers behind the legislation, joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d to discuss the proposal and the effort to make New York City safer for birds.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is known as the city that never sleeps, but a new bill is asking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2274,2275,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,1103,200],"class_list":["post-323042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-spectrum-news-ny1","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323042","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=323042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}