{"id":147,"date":"2024-11-08T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/?p=147"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:01:54","slug":"statement-from-new-york-city-council-majority-whip-selvena-n-brooks-powers-on-rockaway-line-resiliency-and-rehabilitation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/2024\/11\/08\/statement-from-new-york-city-council-majority-whip-selvena-n-brooks-powers-on-rockaway-line-resiliency-and-rehabilitation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from New York City Council Majority Whip Selvena N. Brooks Powers on Rockaway Line Resiliency and Rehabilitation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 I have been working with the MTA and my partners in government to secure additional resources, investments, and support for Rockaway residents as a result of the Rockaway Line Resiliency and Rehabilitation project, and to ensure we restore full service to the Rockaway Peninsula as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Rockaway residents already intimately feel the impacts of living in an outer-borough area with scarce public transit access, and I am working to ensure we mitigate the impacts of this planned outage on our community. I look forward to gathering additional community input on the planned service outage at a town hall meeting I am hosting on Thursday, November 14th at 7pm at the Rockaway YMCA in partnership with Congressman Gregory Meeks, Senator James Sanders Jr., Assembly Members Stacey Pheffer-Amato and Khaleel Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Media Contact for Majority Whip Selvena Brooks-Powers:<\/p>\n<p>Julian Martin | <a href=\"mailto:jmartin@council.nyc.gov\">jmartin@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 I have been working with the MTA and my partners in government to secure additional resources, investments, and support for Rockaway residents as a result of the Rockaway Line Resiliency and Rehabilitation project, and to ensure we restore full service to the Rockaway Peninsula as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Rockaway residents already intimately feel the impacts of living in an outer-borough area with scarce public transit access, and I am working to ensure we mitigate the impacts of this planned outage on our community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/2024\/11\/08\/statement-from-new-york-city-council-majority-whip-selvena-n-brooks-powers-on-rockaway-line-resiliency-and-rehabilitation-project\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/selvena-brooks-powers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}