{"id":268448,"date":"2026-06-16T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:52:09","slug":"queens-high-schoolers-cut-ribbon-at-renovated-jackson-heights-basketball-court-after-completion-of-student-led-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268448\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens high-schoolers cut ribbon at renovated Jackson Heights basketball court after completion of student-led project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Queens high school students gathered in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/jackson-heights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jackson Heights<\/a> Friday, June 12, to cut the ribbon at the renovated Playground 90 basketball court, celebrating the completion of a student-led project that saw teens raise over $50,000 in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Students from Voyages Preparatory High School joined Council Member Shekar Krishnan, Assembly Member Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas and community partners at the court on Friday afternoon to unveil the newly-renovated facility.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/06\/high-school-students-basketball-court-renovations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tQueens high-schoolers cut ribbon at renovated Jackson Heights basketball court after completion of student-led project &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of Queens high school students gathered in Jackson Heights Friday, June 12, to cut the ribbon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[40981,4567,10400,24426,2610,9,24,12,63,103662,122,124,123,22910,319,103663],"class_list":["post-268448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-assembly-member-jessica-gonzalez-rojas","tag-basketball","tag-jackson-heights","tag-kids-education","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-playground-90","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-shekar-krishnan","tag-sports","tag-voyagers-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268448","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=268448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268448\/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=268448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}