{"id":792,"date":"2025-07-10T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:52:26","slug":"stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/07\/10\/stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitching Community: The Immigrant Women Who Handmade a Brooklyn Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/articles\/stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood\/\">Adi Magazine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/article_author\/roohi-choudhry\/\">Rouhi Choudhry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/article_author\/herikita\/\">Herikita<\/a> | Published July 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p>[A narrative essay exploring the writer finding community post the 2016 presidential election]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight before 2016, I felt attached to the open and public space conversation\u2014trying to help shape this plaza that sits across from the mosque. I felt really compelled by the mission to make the space a place for women to gather, to roam, to be, to meet their friends, and for young girls to have additional room to play\u2026 The plaza has helped shape culture and community solidarity in ways that I couldn\u2019t have projected. It has made the community feel comfortable to gather at some of the hardest moments of political life in our city and state. When Trump got elected, people gathered here. At moments of community struggle and resistance, the plaza was where there was a clear demonstration of \u2018we must not be divided\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Shahana Hanif, New York City Council Member for District 39<\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>[See full article <a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/articles\/stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/articles\/stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood\/\">Adi Magazine<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/article_author\/roohi-choudhry\/\">Rouhi Choudhry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/adimagazine.com\/article_author\/herikita\/\">Herikita<\/a> | Published July 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p>[A narrative essay exploring the writer finding community post the 2016 presidential election]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight before 2016, I felt attached to the open and public space conversation\u2014trying to help shape this plaza that sits across from the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2025\/07\/10\/stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}