Tag: Health Department
The number of 311 complaints for pests, specifically rats, is up by more than 5% in just a single year. Specifically, the number of pest complaints took a leap to 24,586 in fiscal 2013, from 22,300 the previous year. “This is a rat race we’re all losing,” Comptroller Scott Stringer managed to tell the press […]
Over the weekend, 15 people arrived in New York’s emergency rooms with suspected severe reactions to fake weed blends with stupid names like “K2, Spice, Green Giant, Geeked Up, Caution, Smacked, Wicked X, AK-47” and god knows what else. The New York Health Department even issued a warning yesterday, noting the 220% increase in synthetic […]
If you’re confused about the health code status of those shiny roasted duck carcasses hanging in the windows of your favorite Chinatown joints in Manhattan, so is the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, according to a recent report in Open City. Ten years ago, the DOH deemed the ducks in violation because the […]
