{"id":186844,"date":"2026-04-06T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:42:15","slug":"rep-meng-on-efforts-to-support-firehouses-senior-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186844\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Meng on efforts to support firehouses, senior centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills visits Rep. Grace Meng at a firehouse in Maspeth.<\/p>\n<p>Meng says the 100-year-old firehouse received $2 million for renovations, including fixing the apparatus floor and electrical system.<\/p>\n<p>They also visit a senior center in Elmhurst, which Meng says is facing funding concerns due to federal budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills visits Rep. Grace Meng at a firehouse in Maspeth. Meng&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-186844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-in-focus","9":"tag-cheryl-wills","10":"tag-dana-perez","11":"tag-in-focus","12":"tag-in-focus-shows","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844","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=186844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}