{"id":123879,"date":"2026-02-05T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123879\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:16:13","slug":"ed-the-speakers-corner-a-new-chapter-for-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123879\/","title":{"rendered":"ed | The Speaker\u2019s Corner: A new chapter for New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/julie-menin-elected-city-council-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">my first month as City Council speaker,<\/a>\u00a0 I\u2019ve had more conversations than I can count: on sidewalks, in small businesses, at community events, and yes, on the subway. And no matter what borough I\u2019m in or who I\u2019m talking to, the questions tend to sound quite similar.<\/p>\n<p>How do we make New York affordable again? How do we get a city government that actually works? How do we keep jobs and opportunity here? What is the role of the City Council?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/oped\/op-ed-speakers-corner-julie-menin-february-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tOp-ed | The Speaker\u2019s Corner: A new chapter for New York City &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; In my first month as City Council speaker,\u00a0 I\u2019ve had more conversations than I can count: on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13280,2091,20751,2043,14746,53967,1859,1861,53968,19077,9,24,1057,55,54,56,3842,12048,4799,9516,4636],"class_list":["post-123879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-affordability-crisis","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-city-government","tag-civic-engagement","tag-combating-hate","tag-economic-growth","tag-economic-mobility","tag-housing-policy","tag-insurance-reform","tag-julie-menin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-council","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-oped","tag-public-policy","tag-small-businesses","tag-urban-planning","tag-workforce-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123879","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=123879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123879\/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=123879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}