{"id":105063,"date":"2026-01-19T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105063\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:19:08","slug":"hundreds-attend-cm-shanel-thomas-henrys-inauguration-at-packed-elmcor-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105063\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds attend CM Shanel Thomas-Henry\u2019s inauguration at packed Elmcor center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of local residents, community organizers and elected officials packed into <a href=\"https:\/\/elmcor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elmcor Youth &amp; Adult Activities, Inc.<\/a> on Northern Boulevard on Jan. 16 to celebrate the inauguration of Council Member Shanel Thomas-Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas-Henry, who took office earlier in January after winning a hotly contested race to succeed former Council Member Francisco Moya in 21st District last year, spoke of her deep ties to the community during Friday night\u2019s inauguration and vowed to fight for immigrant communities, protect small businesses and advocate for stable housing during her term in office.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/01\/shanel-thomas-henry-inauguration-elmcor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tHundreds attend CM Shanel Thomas-Henry\u2019s inauguration at packed Elmcor center &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Hundreds of local residents, community organizers and elected officials packed into Elmcor Youth &amp; Adult Activities, Inc.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[27994,878,47734,9262,47735,47736,47737,21220,22987,10400,19077,47738,2610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,47739,18411],"class_list":["post-105063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-ag-letitia-james","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-assemblyman-jeffrion-aubry","tag-corona","tag-council-member-julissa-ferreras-copeland","tag-councilwoman-julie-menin","tag-east-elmhurst","tag-elmcor","tag-elmhurst","tag-jackson-heights","tag-julie-menin","tag-lefrak-city","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-saeeda-dunston","tag-shanel-thomas-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}