{"id":147714,"date":"2026-02-27T20:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147714\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:36:08","slug":"mayors-sunnyside-yards-pitch-to-trump-sparks-clash-with-queens-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147714\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor\u2019s Sunnyside Yards pitch to Trump sparks clash with Queens lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Feb. 27, marked the 58th day of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term as mayor. <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/mamdani100days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">amNewYork is following Mamdani around his first 100 days in office<\/a>\u00a0as we closely track his progress on fulfilling campaign promises, appointing key leaders to government posts, and managing the city\u2019s finances. Here\u2019s a summary of what the mayor did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani100days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> on Friday defended his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani-unannounced-trip-trump-02262026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">surprise Oval Office pitch<\/a> to President Donald Trump to revive the long-stalled development of Sunnyside Yards, casting it as a necessary step to confront the city\u2019s affordability crisis \u2014 even as the local council member whose district would host the project accused him of sidelining the community.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani-trump-sunnyside-yards-02272026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMAMDANI\u2019S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor\u2019s Sunnyside Yards pitch to Trump sparks clash with Queens lawmaker &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Wednesday, Feb. 27, marked the 58th day of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term as mayor. amNewYork is following Mamdani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[44590,42931,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-147714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-mamdani-first-100-days","9":"tag-mamdani100days","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147714","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=147714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147714\/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=147714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}