{"id":152890,"date":"2026-03-04T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:19:09","slug":"mayor-defends-staten-island-exclusion-from-initial-free-2k-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152890\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor defends Staten Island exclusion from initial free 2K pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, March 4, marked the 63rd 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> We are closely tracking 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 today.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday defended his administration\u2019s decision to exclude Staten Island from the first phase of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdani-100-days-03032026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">city\u2019s new \u201c2K\u201d child care pilot<\/a>, saying the borough\u2019s single school district makes a rapid rollout more difficult than in other parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani-100-days-03042026\/\" 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 defends Staten Island exclusion from initial free 2K pilot &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Wednesday, March 4, marked the 63rd 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":[6],"tags":[3208,42784,1445,42931,9,11,10,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-152890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-childcare","9":"tag-first-100-days","10":"tag-mamdani","11":"tag-mamdani100days","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-staten-island"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152890","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=152890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152890\/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=152890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}