{"id":216871,"date":"2026-05-01T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:48:08","slug":"bronx-week-begins-after-being-put-on-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216871\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Week begins after being put on \u2018pause\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx Week \u2014 a celebration of the borough\u2019s businesses and culture \u2014 officially kicked off Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson had said this year\u2019s event would need to be canceled over financial concerns. However, the program was brought back after a rally of support by local business owners and community groups.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson joined NY1 anchor Shannan Ferry on \u201cNews All Day\u201d to discuss the lead-up to this year\u2019s Bronx Week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know Bronx Week has been around for over 50 years,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cIt\u2019s a legacy. It\u2019s a tradition. We don\u2019t want to see it not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bronx Week runs until May 17. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilovethebronx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx Week \u2014 a celebration of the borough\u2019s businesses and culture \u2014 officially kicked off Friday. Bronx Borough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2367,128,7473,9,24,2368,37641,2370,63,2369,129,131,130,200],"class_list":["post-216871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-live-at-noon","tag-bronx","tag-ctv","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-all-day","tag-nicholas-loud","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-shannan-ferry","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216871","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=216871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}