{"id":230237,"date":"2026-05-13T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:11:43","slug":"queens-day-2026-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230237\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens Day 2026 &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-05-13\/1p1-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198893\" class=\"wp-image-198893 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1p1-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Joseph Connor\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-198893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Joseph Connor<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of business leaders from across Queens traveled to Albany on May 5 to meet with state lawmakers and advocate for the borough\u2019s economic future as part of the Queens Chamber of Com\u00admerce\u2019s annual Queens Day in Albany. The daylong event brought together entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and policymakers for a powerful show of unity and engagement at the State Capitol. Cham\u00adber members met with dozens of State Senate and Assembly representatives to discuss key priorities from the Chamber\u2019s 2026 Legislative Agenda, focusing on expanding economic opportunities, strengthening the local workforce, and making it easier for small businesses to grow and thrive. \u201cShowing up in Albany and having real conversations with our elected officials is how we move the nee\u00addle for Queens businesses,\u201d said Tom Grech, President and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. \u201cWe talked about key priorities like bringing new economic opportunities to Queens, support\u00ading our local workforce, and making it easier for businesses to grow and succeed. I\u2019m proud of the strong turnout from our business community and grateful to the legislators and their teams for taking the time to listen and engage.\u201d See page 16 for related story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Joseph Connor Hundreds of business leaders from across Queens traveled to Albany on May 5 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-230237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230237","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=230237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}