{"id":126,"date":"2022-05-31T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/?p=126"},"modified":"2022-07-05T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:31:44","slug":"126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/05\/31\/126\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/05\/asian-american-federation-new-flushing-office\/\">Council Member Ung Joins AAF for Opening of First Queens Office<\/a>, <em>QNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Members of the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aafederation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian American Federation (AAF)<\/a>&nbsp;were joined by local elected officials and community leaders to celebrate the grand opening of its brand-new office in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/flushing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flushing<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday, May 26. Ung, who represents the district, said she looks forward to working with AAF on everything from civic engagement to economic development to better serve its diverse Asian American communities.&nbsp; \u201cI am so thrilled to welcome the Asian American Federation to my district,\u201d Ung said. \u201cThe valuable programs, services and support they have provided from their Manhattan office since 1989 will now be available right here in Queens, the borough with the highest Asian population in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/05\/asian-american-federation-new-flushing-office\/\">Council Member Ung Joins AAF for Opening of First Queens Office<\/a>, <em>QNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Members of the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aafederation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian American Federation (AAF)<\/a>&nbsp;were joined by local elected officials and community leaders to celebrate the grand opening of its brand-new office in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/flushing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flushing<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday, May 26. Ung, who represents the district, said she looks forward to working with AAF on everything from civic engagement to economic development to better serve its diverse Asian American communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/05\/31\/126\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}