Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson was sworn in Sunday to serve the borough for another four years.<\/p>\n
The inauguration took place at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is for my mom,\u201d Gibson said after taking the oath, administered by New York State Attorney General Letitia James.<\/p>\n
Community members and elected officials attended the ceremony, with many celebrating the impact of Gibson\u2019s re\u2011election.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny woman could become anything that they set their mind to,\u201d said attendee Devri Goins.<\/p>\n
Others said they hope Gibson will address housing and homelessness.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping that more is done with housing issues. There are a lot of homeless families, and there are a lot of people in shelters, but not in a regular house setting,\u201d said attendee Diane Torres.<\/p>\n
Gibson announced her slogan for the new term, The Bronx Leads, with investments focused on mental health, Black maternal health disparities and education.<\/p>\n
This year, Bronxites can expect several projects to open, including a new blood center in Throggs Neck, the redevelopment of the Orchard Beach pavilion and a Bronx High School for Hip\u2011Hop scheduled to open in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson was sworn in Sunday to serve the borough for another four years. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[52432,14616,128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-119358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-ask-the-borough-president","tag-borough-president","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119358","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=119358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}