{"id":273784,"date":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273784\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","slug":"news-12-westchester-yonkers-neighbors-celebrate-ukrainian-heritage-during-weekend-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273784\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Yonkers Neighbors Celebrate Ukrainian Heritage During Weekend Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A celebration of Ukrainian culture, food and community took place in Westchester\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The annual Ukrainian Heritage Festival was held this weekend in Yonkers, drawing people of all ages and backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The event gave many a chance to honor their heritage and share family traditions.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe\u2019re far away from Ukraine, but we think about Ukraine and support Ukraine as always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWhen I was born, my uncle, who is Ukrainian, used to teach me to polka and dance me around when I was a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis is my first time coming, and I love it. I think the embroidery, the food \u2014 everything was great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Money raised during the three-day festival will be donated to organizations and charities that support Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A celebration of Ukrainian culture, food and community took place in Westchester\u2019s largest city. The annual Ukrainian Heritage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-273784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/273784","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=273784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}