{"id":180,"date":"2024-04-10T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=180"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:08:18","slug":"columbia-spectator-mayor-eric-adams-hosts-community-conversation-in-west-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/04\/10\/columbia-spectator-mayor-eric-adams-hosts-community-conversation-in-west-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Spectator: Mayor Eric Adams hosts community conversation in West Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/city-news\/2024\/04\/10\/mayor-eric-adams-hosts-community-conversation-in-west-harlem\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Miranda Lu and Tsehai Alfred<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Eric Adams hosted a community conversation at the Manhattanville Community Center on Monday, the latest in a series of public meetings offering residents and community stakeholders the opportunity to engage in direct dialogue with the administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with a panel of other officials, Adams spoke to a full room of community members on questions spanning a range of issues affecting West Harlem and New York City as a whole, including the citywide trash containerization rollout, influx of people seeking asylum, and safety concerns in New York City Housing Authority complexes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To begin the event, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys\u2019 \u201cEmpire State of Mind\u201d\u2014the mayor\u2019s frequently used press walkout song\u2014blasted from the loudspeakers. Fred Kreizman, commissioner of the mayor\u2019s community affairs unit, then introduced a panel of city officials that included District 7 City Council member Shaun Abreu, CC \u201914, and Maria Torres-Springer, deputy mayor of housing, economic development, and workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abreu thanked the mayor and city officials for coming and highlighted the \u201cexciting investments\u201d that the administration is continuing to bring to West Harlem: an $18 million investment in Morningside Park\u2014which would be used to build accessible stairs on the northern side of the park\u2014$27 million to Taystee Lab to fund life sciences research, and $5 million to rat mitigation zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/city-news\/2024\/04\/10\/mayor-eric-adams-hosts-community-conversation-in-west-harlem\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Miranda Lu and Tsehai Alfred<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams hosted a community conversation at the Manhattanville Community Center on Monday, the latest in a series of public meetings offering residents and community stakeholders the opportunity to engage in direct dialogue with the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Along with a panel of other officials, Adams spoke to a full room of community members on questions spanning a range of issues affecting West Harlem and New York City as a whole, including the citywide trash containerization rollout, influx of people seeking asylum, and safety concerns in New York City Housing Authority complexes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/04\/10\/columbia-spectator-mayor-eric-adams-hosts-community-conversation-in-west-harlem\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}