{"id":34,"date":"2017-01-30T19:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/?p=34"},"modified":"2018-02-01T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:43:10","slug":"new-city-council-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/2017\/01\/30\/new-city-council-website\/","title":{"rendered":"New City Council Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! Today we launched the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\">new City Council website<\/a><\/strong>. The redesigned website is more user friendly, interactive, and transparent and  will help strengthen engagement with diverse New Yorkers. <\/p>\n<p>While the domain remains the same \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\">council.nyc.gov<\/a>\u2014, the site adopts the design of the previous experimental site Council Labs, created with the aim of increasing accessibility and transparency about the Council\u2019s work. In addition to a responsive, mobile-friendly layout, the site includes interactive features such as a visual budget explorer and searchable map of districts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Find your Council Member, legislative committees &amp; where their offices are located on our NEW site!\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gkEBiYGOrr\">https:\/\/t.co\/gkEBiYGOrr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYCCLabs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NYCCLabs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LeAe2U2DM5\">pic.twitter.com\/LeAe2U2DM5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYC Council (@NYCCouncil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCCouncil\/status\/827154922705735680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the we launched an alpha site, Council Labs, to try out new ways of sharing information and create a better user experience with the Council\u2019s digital platforms.  Through the agile and iterative development of Labs, the Speaker and Council sought to establish a comprehensive, accessible source for the Council\u2019s information. A broad testing process further integrated Labs with social media engagement and large-scale legislative projects such as <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/land-use\/plans\/mih-zqa\/\">Mandatory Inclusionary Housing<\/a>, in which Labs content provided residents with clear and concise information.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to improve the new site and welcome suggestions from New Yorkers via <a href=\"mailto:labs@council.nyc.gov\">labs@council.nyc.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kl991dgWd3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! Today we launched the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\">new City Council website<\/a><\/strong>. The redesigned website is more user friendly, interactive, and transparent and  will help strengthen engagement with diverse New Yorkers. <\/p>\n<p>While the domain remains the same \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/council.nyc.gov\">council.nyc.gov<\/a>\u2014, the site adopts the design of the previous experimental site Council Labs, created with the aim of increasing accessibility and transparency about the Council\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/2017\/01\/30\/new-city-council-website\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-2-0","category-demystify-government","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}