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Winter is a time when city parks go into hibernation, waiting for new life come spring. But at a Staten Island lab, Department of Parks and Recreation employees have no time to wait — they’re cleaning and organizing a vast store of seeds from around the region, readying them to be sown across the five boroughs.
Patrick Over, the department’s sole full-time seed collector, was busy this fall rustling up a harvest, much as squirrels and birds do.
“From the plant’s perspective, it’s like a season of giving,” says Over, who has gathered some 250 batches in 2025. “There’s an implied exchange there where they’re giving us a gift, and our end of the bargain is to plant them and tend to them and nurture the next generation.”
Read more here about the team prepping spring in greenhouses and refrigerators.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he takes “seriously” a comptroller audit of a municipal employee health fund that found the joint union-city fund is insolvent, owes billions of dollars and did not properly report its activities — as fiscal watchdogs and retiree advocates called it confirmation of their years of warnings.
Gov. Kathy Hochul gave clemency to 13 New Yorkers Tuesday but ignored tougher cases, including that of a person incarcerated for 40 years for murders he committed as a teen, even though his petition was backed by the Manhattan DA. She also continues to violate her pledge to issue pardons and commutations on a rolling basis.
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