{"id":1738,"date":"2019-05-05T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:43:52","slug":"statement-by-speaker-corey-johnson-on-the-death-of-former-council-member-lew-fidler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/05\/05\/1738\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Corey Johnson on the Death of Former Council Member Lew Fidler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The City Council is in mourning. We have lost our friend and former colleague, Council Member Lew Fidler. He was 62. Lew was a compassionate and devoted legislator for the people of the 46th District in southern Brooklyn, which he represented from 2002 to 2013. And as chair of the City Council&#8217;s Youth Services Committee, Lew was also a passionate champion for runaway and homeless youth. Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of those young people had their lives changed for the better because of Lew&#8217;s tireless work. He was their pitbull. <\/p>\n<p>My deepest condolences to his wife Robin and their sons, Max and Harry. Lew was a giant in New York City politics who will be remembered in Brooklyn and beyond for years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The City Council is in mourning. We have lost our friend and former colleague, Council Member Lew Fidler. He was 62. Lew was a compassionate and devoted legislator for the people of the 46th District in southern Brooklyn, which he represented from 2002 to 2013. And as chair of the City Council&#8217;s Youth Services Committee, Lew was also a passionate champion for runaway and homeless youth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2019\/05\/05\/1738\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}