{"id":255597,"date":"2026-06-04T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255597\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:57:00","slug":"theres-no-business-like-board-business-jesse-bodine-leaves-mcb4-after-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255597\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Business Like Board Business \u2014 Jesse Bodine Leaves MCB4 After a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Jesse Bodine arrived as district manager of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) in late 2014, the neighborhood was given a memorable introduction to its new civic wrangler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_3922-Hoylman-Sigal-Bodine.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Bodine and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal\" class=\"wp-image-145643\"\/>Jesse Bodine receives a proclamation from  Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christine Berthet, then chair of the board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/new-faces-and-old-frustrations-at-cb4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said at his first meeting<\/a> that Bodine had the \u201cwidest match of skills\u201d among more than 40 applicants. Then came the line that has aged into near-perfect Hell\u2019s Kitchen comedy: \u201cWith his Peace Corps management in the wilds of Africa, we had a feeling this wild MCB4 area with all of its people would be right up his alley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jesse Bodine arrived as district manager of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) in late 2014, the neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,1887,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-255597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mcb4","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255597","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=255597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}