{"id":146515,"date":"2026-02-26T20:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:39:30","slug":"new-cultural-center-coming-to-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146515\/","title":{"rendered":"New cultural center coming to Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bella Zarate<\/p>\n<p>A long-anticipated project aimed at preserving and revitalizing Manhattan\u2019s historic Black community is moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Ellis-Glasper, executive director of the Black Entrepreneurs of the Flint Hills, said the organization will break ground at 2 p.m. March 10 for construction of the Yuma Street Cultural Center at 930 Yuma St. \u2014 an area long recognized as the heart of Manhattan\u2019s Black history.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis-Glasper said the project represents a step toward honoring a community shaped by resilience during segregation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/new-cultural-center-coming-to-manhattan\/article_81b1053d-f6d6-43b6-9198-7ba21273cb61.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bella Zarate A long-anticipated project aimed at preserving and revitalizing Manhattan\u2019s historic Black community is moving forward.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-146515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146515","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=146515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}