{"id":65,"date":"2022-03-24T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/?p=65"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:22:48","slug":"65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/03\/24\/65\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 24, 2022:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qchron.com\/editions\/queenswide\/mayor-s-office-proposes-2-7m-in-dcla-cuts\/article_2f99bb52-0cf2-5744-a28d-233c17b6e69f.html\">Queens Cultural Spots Face Budget Cuts<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Queens Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams\u2019 proposed budget cuts could leave cultural institutions in Queens reeling if they were to go through, according to leaders of those organizations. Most of the institutions (Flushing Town Hall, Queens Botanical Garden, New York Hall of Science, Queens Theatre and Queens Museum of Art) fall within or near Councilwoman Sandra Ung\u2019s (D-Flushing) district. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky to have so many cultural institutions in Flushing that are important to the entire borough, but that also means when cultural institutions are the target of budget cuts, those cuts hit particularly hard,\u201d Ung, a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs, said later via email. \u201cOur cultural organizations are important to everyone from our children to our seniors, and offer a variety of programming that serves the ethnically diverse population of Queens. As we continue to negotiate the budget in the City Council, I\u2019m going to fight with my colleagues to make sure that cultural institutions like Flushing Town Hall have the funding they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 24, 2022:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qchron.com\/editions\/queenswide\/mayor-s-office-proposes-2-7m-in-dcla-cuts\/article_2f99bb52-0cf2-5744-a28d-233c17b6e69f.html\">Queens Cultural Spots Face Budget Cuts<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Queens Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams\u2019 proposed budget cuts could leave cultural institutions in Queens reeling if they were to go through, according to leaders of those organizations. Most of the institutions (Flushing Town Hall, Queens Botanical Garden, New York Hall of Science, Queens Theatre and Queens Museum of Art) fall within or near Councilwoman Sandra Ung\u2019s (D-Flushing) district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/03\/24\/65\/\">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-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}