{"id":212105,"date":"2026-04-28T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:45:07","slug":"shyne-honored-with-day-key-to-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212105\/","title":{"rendered":"Shyne honored with day, key to Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Getty_Shyne_42726.png\" alt=\"\"\/>Shyne attends the 17th Annual AAFCA Awards at The Maybourne Beverly Hills on February 08, 2026, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kayla Oaddams\/WireImage)<\/p>\n<p>April 25 has officially been declared Shyne Day in Brooklyn, New York, in honor of the rapper-turned-politician. Over the weekend, Shyne was also presented with the key to the borough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApril 25th is officially SHYNE DAY in my second home, the thoroughest borough, Brooklyn!\u201d he wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXmOQK1EeSY\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThanks again to the extraordinary public servant and leader, Brooklyn Borough President\u00a0Antonio Reynoso, for these distinct honors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shyne received the recognition during the East Flatbush Young Men\u2019s Mentorship Expo at\u00a0SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. The event brought together young men from the East Flatbush neighborhood for a day of panels, workshops and mentorship opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShyne represents hustle, grit, and everything Brooklyn. He shows us that our story is constantly evolving and that it\u2019s never too late to reinvent ourselves,\u201d\u00a0Reynoso said in a statement. \u201cIt was only fitting to declare April 25, 2026 as Shyne Day in Brooklyn and to present him with an official Key to the Borough of Brooklyn. This is how we do it in BK!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/Mp1HGjaIVik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a video<\/a> with Reynoso, Shyne expressed his gratitude:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m so thrilled and humbled to receive this recognition for my contributions to this great borough, the thorough borough. And do it in the backdrop of these young kids that we\u2019re mentoring, that we are trying to encourage, they are new generations of Shyne and that they will take the stalk from us both. And one day they will be here getting recognized, and their legacy will be celebrated because that\u2019s what Brooklyn does. We create the very best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shyne attends the 17th Annual AAFCA Awards at The Maybourne Beverly Hills on February 08, 2026, in Beverly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212105","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=212105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}