{"id":828951,"date":"2026-08-28T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828951\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:52:11","slug":"early-addition-the-war-on-rats-wages-war-against-other-nyc-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828951\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Addition: The war on rats wages war against other NYC wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"b3vs0\">Good Friday morning in New York City, where an <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/bronx-river-bounty-otter-beaver-and-now-a-mink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American mink<\/a> was recently spotted in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6ks02\">Here&#8217;s what else is happening:<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration will fire two air traffic controllers after <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/RHHxC4xq1kCADOqMcOmfGlh4tlcJ?domain=click.lists.wnyc.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">they left work early<\/a> the night a jet collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia in March, killing two people.Ahead of the new school year, parents and teachers want answers from education officials on the use of AI in <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/VIWcC5yr2lFYX725hzZUq4hkQyvO?domain=click.lists.wnyc.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Public Schools<\/a>.\u201cDolly: A True Original Musical\u201d will still <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/EFgpC68v3milpvqjspOc7Xh5NVqP?domain=click.lists.wnyc.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">open next year on Broadway<\/a> on what would have been her 81st birthday, \u201cas was Dolly\u2019s wish.\u201dThe Trinidad and Tobago Parade in Brooklyn this weekend has been cancelled after the NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/tQ83C73wgnhj8Kw4T8vU3jhoOeLR?domain=click.lists.wnyc.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">denied the organizers&#8217; permit<\/a>.New York City&#8217;s war on rats is taking a toll on other <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/aqy5C82xjoU820EDFnmhgwhyk-Ks?domain=click.lists.wnyc.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wildlife in the city<\/a>.Harry Styles kicked off a 30-night residency at <a href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/5gTfC9rykpUVlXDLfoLiNQhqD7Z1?domain=click.lists.wnyc.org\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Square Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6t89j\">And finally, a reminder to take it easy this weekend:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good Friday morning in New York City, where an American mink was recently spotted in the Bronx. Here&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-828951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}