{"id":219193,"date":"2026-05-04T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:20:07","slug":"mayor-mamdani-and-rep-ritchie-torres-announce-2m-to-expand-high-speed-internet-in-the-bronx-and-upper-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219193\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani and Rep. Ritchie Torres announce $2M to expand high-speed internet in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres announced a $2 million federal investment to expand free high-speed internet access for low-income New Yorkers on Monday, scaling up the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/hpd\/news\/015-25\/city-launches-neighborhood-tech-help-bridge-digital-divide-across-boroughs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Neighborhood Internet<\/a> program across The Bronx and Upper Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion builds on an initial pilot funded by the city\u2019s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which is expected to bring free, high-speed internet to roughly 700 households in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan by this summer. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/mayor-mamdani-ritchie-torres-high-speed-internet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tEXCLUSIVE: Mayor Mamdani and Rep. Ritchie Torres announce $2M to expand high-speed internet in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Mayor Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres announced a $2 million federal investment to expand free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[36413,49378,86335,86336,13860,2708,86337,1445,36610,32307,86338,2610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,2567,2457,25722,86339,82],"class_list":["post-219193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-broadband","tag-community-project-funding","tag-department-of-housing-and-preservationm-nypl","tag-high-speed-internet","tag-hpd","tag-internet","tag-low-income","tag-mamdani","tag-mayor-mamdani","tag-melrose","tag-neighborhood-internet","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rep-ritchie-torres","tag-ritchie-torres","tag-the-new-york-public-library","tag-torres","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219193","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=219193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219193\/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=219193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}