{"id":227063,"date":"2026-05-11T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227063\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:51:23","slug":"news-12-bronx-power-politics-small-businesses-struggling-in-nyc-timeline-to-close-rikers-and-open-borough-based-jails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227063\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Power Politics Small Businesses Struggling In Nyc Timeline To Close Rikers And Open Borough Based Jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Small businesses do not feel supported by local policy, according to the latest Small Business Expo report. News 12&#8217;s Heather Fordham sits down with David Estrada, the executive director of the Sunset Park Business Improvement District, about the current state of small businesses in NYC. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rikers Island must close by August 2027, meaning that borough-based jails will need to be open in time to house those in custody. Darren Mack, co-director of the Freedom Agenda, and Tara Brown-Arnell, director of BronxConnect, discuss the first 100 days of Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s term in office and the timeline of Rikers Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mack says each day Rikers Island remains open it increases the risk that someone could lose their life. He looks forward to working with the administration to push things forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small businesses do not feel supported by local policy, according to the latest Small Business Expo report. News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-227063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227063","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=227063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}