Early Addition: The Upper East Side tackles dog poop

Also, the NYPD commissioner resigns and Mount Sinai doctors avert a strike. [View this email in a browser.]( [Get a T-Shirt When You Donate!]( Gothamist relies on your support to make news available to all. This month only: You'll get a t-shirt when you become a member. [Donate Now]( [Upper East Side announces new campaign to tackle dog poop]( [first image]( [by Emily Nadal]( Good Tuesday morning in New York City where the [Upper East Side has a plan to tackle dog poop.]( The crackdown on poop includes installing more than 250 aluminum signs, featuring a Statue of Liberty dog reminding owners to pick up after their pups, around the neighborhood’s streets. Here’s what else is happening: - NYPD Commissioner [Keechant Sewell is resigning after a year and half on the job]( but it’s unclear why she’s leaving and when her last day will be. - Former President Donald Trump, who is facing 37 federal charges for allegedly mishandling classified documents, [is expected to appear at a Miami courthouse today.]( - Early-career doctors at Mount Sinai’s Harlem and West locations who are advocating for better treatment [came to a tentative agreement with their employer, avoiding a strike.]( - A Las Vegas family [claims a UFO fell from the sky and crashed into their backyard](. Several other witnesses across three states also reported seeing something fall from the sky but exactly what it was has yet to be determined weeks later. - An overwhelming majority of migrants under the [city’s care are families with children.]( - Police are searching for an attacker who [randomly kicked a puppy named Biscotti]( while the dog was walking on the Upper East Side. Biscotti’s injuries were so bad, he had to be taken to an emergency vet. - Lawmakers in New York have yet to pass a bill that [extends subsidized health coverage to roughly 255,000 undocumented immigrants]( and a special session to try and make it happen is now being considered. - The Department of Motor Vehicles debuted new [license plates which each showcase one of 10 regions in the state]( including NYC. Predictably, the city’s design features a skyline. - Other license plate designs made it to the Supreme Court who decided not to hear a [challenge to North Carolina’s decision to stop issuing Confederate flag plates.]( - The NYPD is searching for three men who they say [vandalized a Pride flag display at Stonewall National Monument]( over the weekend in a case that is being investigated as a hate crime. - An orphaned sea otter from California named Ryder [found a new home at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn]( and you may be [able to meet him this summer.]( - Seven people were injured and multiple families displaced after a [Sunday night fire that erupted in a six-story Bronx building.]( - The majority of [asthma-related emergency room visits]( during the NYC smoke haze were in high poverty, Black and Latino areas. - Rats have not always controlled NYC streets, according to a This American Life segment which [traces their overpopulation back to when the city made a big trash removal change:]( from tin garbage cans to black bags. - Watch out Taylor Swift, [Ed Sheeran just broke Metlife Stadium’s attendance record]( by drawing a crowd of more than 89,000 people. We’ll see if Beyonce can top it next month. “When I just was walking down Lexington Avenue it was dog poop on the curves and it shouldn’t be that way.” - Sylvia Hyman, An Upper East side resident who is [TIRED OF DOG POOP ON THE STREET.]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [Where to go and what to see at today’s free Museum Mile Festival]( This year's event, the 45th annual celebration, will be held on Tuesday, June 13, when eight major institutions will open their doors to the public completely free of charge from 6 to 9 p.m. [‘The streets belong to you’: Summer Streets to open 20 miles of NYC roadways]( The expanded [Summer Streets]( program, which Mayor Eric Adams called a “bold new vision for public space across the city” during a press conference on Monday, will begin on July 29 in Queens and Staten Island, and then extend to the remaining boroughs in August. [We Rely On Your Support]( [Evictions are soaring in NYC and most tenants don’t have a lawyer]( More than 100,000 eviction cases are clogging the courts, leaving nonprofit attorneys stretched thin and thousands of New Yorkers facing the prospect of losing their homes. [This Hoboken park fights floods by holding 2 million gallons of stormwater]( Hoboken city officials on Monday inaugurated a five-acre park that will double as an underground stormwater basin and help mitigate against chronic flooding. [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.