{"id":786,"date":"2021-02-18T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-03-17T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:53:26","slug":"statement-on-shop-your-city-be-nyc-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2021\/02\/18\/statement-on-shop-your-city-be-nyc-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Shop Your City: BE NYC Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We cannot afford to lose our local restaurant and shops who contribute to our economic and cultural growth year-round, especially in Council District 45. The Shop Your City: BE NYC initiative is a lifeline and the catalyst that we need to change the future outlook for Black-owned businesses,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Council Member Farah N. Louis, Vice Co-Chair of the New York City Council Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full press release from the Office of the Mayor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/113-21\/recovery-all-mayor-de-blasio-shop-your-city-be-nyc-support-black-owned-businesses\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/113-21\/recovery-all-mayor-de-blasio-shop-your-city-be-nyc-support-black-owned-businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We cannot afford to lose our local restaurant and shops who contribute to our economic and cultural growth year-round, especially in Council District 45. The Shop Your City: BE NYC initiative is a lifeline and the catalyst that we need to change the future outlook for Black-owned businesses,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Council Member Farah N. Louis, Vice Co-Chair of the New York City Council Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/2021\/02\/18\/statement-on-shop-your-city-be-nyc-initiative\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/farah-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}