{"id":176737,"date":"2026-03-27T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176737\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:23:45","slug":"president-ceo-of-queens-public-library-on-city-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176737\/","title":{"rendered":"President, CEO of Queens Public Library on city budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani may hedge on one of his campaign promises to increase funding for the city\u2019s public libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Under the mayor\u2019s preliminary budget proposal, the city\u2019s library system comes in at about 0.39% of the budget, which is lower than the 0.5% Mamdani promised on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>President and CEO of the Queens Public Library Dennis Walcott, who used to be the city\u2019s schools chancellor and deputy mayor, talks about the annual budget dance on \u201cInside City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani may hedge on one of his campaign promises to increase funding for the city\u2019s public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-176737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176737","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=176737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}