{"id":238170,"date":"2026-05-20T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238170\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:31:41","slug":"bronx-residents-rally-against-funding-cuts-to-renaissance-youth-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238170\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx residents rally against funding cuts to Renaissance Youth Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people packed the recital room at <a href=\"https:\/\/renaissanceyouth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Renaissance Youth Center<\/a> (RYC) in Morrisania to protest city funding cuts totaling nearly $800,000 that put its afterschool and school-based programming at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Several staff members, alumni, and Bronx families who rely on RYC spoke passionately against the cuts, saying that the decision was made without explanation and despite the organization\u2019s 25-year track record of service to the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/funding-cuts-renaissance-youth-center\/\" 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\tBronx residents rally against funding cuts to Renaissance Youth Center &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; More than 100 people packed the recital room at Renaissance Youth Center (RYC) in Morrisania to protest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[12980,128,34327,48482,93064,41660,67,24426,22925,4009,2610,9,24,12,12702,63,66337,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-238170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-afterschool-programs","tag-bronx","tag-budget-cuts","tag-city-council-member-althea-stevens","tag-department-of-youth-and-community-development-dycd","tag-dycd","tag-education","tag-kids-education","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-morrisania","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-non-profit","tag-nyc","tag-renaissance-youth-center","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238170","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=238170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238170\/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=238170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}