{"id":14981,"date":"2025-10-24T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14981\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:34:08","slug":"ny-mayoral-candidate-mamdani-pledges-to-simplify-permits-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14981\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Mayoral Candidate Mamdani Pledges to Simplify Permits Ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner for New York mayor in next month\u2019s election, wants to simplify the city\u2019s permitting process to make it easier for organizations to host street events \u2014 a tightly regulated process under current rules that typically requires paying an assortment of fees.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Democratic nominee said, if he wins, he would tailor city requirements based on the size and duration of such gatherings, while also eliminating permit fees for nonprofit groups and small businesses. He criticized the current regulations for forcing businesses to obtain multiple permits from different city agencies and meet onerous insurance mandates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner for New York mayor in next month\u2019s election, wants to simplify the city\u2019s permitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11016,288,3339,4337,11015,609,9,24,55,54,56,87,5913,11014,2780],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ana-champeny","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-department-of-education","tag-fifa","tag-government","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-tax-rate","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","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=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}