{"id":1303,"date":"2026-04-08T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:35:39","slug":"closing-the-rikers-island-311-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/04\/08\/closing-the-rikers-island-311-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Rikers Island 311 &#8216;Black Hole&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by&nbsp;Reuven Blau<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan City Councilmember\u00a0Gale Brewer\u00a0is drafting legislation to force public tracking of complaints from Rikers Island made through the city\u2019s 311 system, aiming to bring transparency and accountability to a largely opaque process. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/closing-the-rikers-island-311-black-hole\/ar-AA20oVMc?ocid=BingNewsVerp\">Closing the Rikers Island 311 &#8216;Black Hole&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by&nbsp;Reuven Blau<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan City Councilmember\u00a0Gale Brewer\u00a0is drafting legislation to force public tracking of complaints from Rikers Island made through the city\u2019s 311 system, aiming to bring transparency and accountability to a largely opaque process. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/closing-the-rikers-island-311-black-hole\/ar-AA20oVMc?ocid=BingNewsVerp\">Closing the Rikers Island 311 &#8216;Black Hole&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rikers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}