{"id":291122,"date":"2026-07-09T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:19:06","slug":"groundbreaking-at-newtown-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291122\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking At Newtown High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-205901 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cruz-at-Newtown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"923\" height=\"611\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Assemblymember Catalina Cruz joined Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., Council Members Shekar Krishnan and Shanel Thomas-Henry, Assemblymember Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas, and NYC Deputy Chancellor of School Operations Kevin Moran for the groundbreaking of Newtown High School\u2019s new $6 million athletic field in Elmhurst. Cruz said: \u201cThank you to Borough President Richards for allocating more than $1.5 million toward this project, and to Council Member Krishnan for his continued support. Improved athletic facilities provide safe spaces for sports, physical education, and extracurricular activities, helping students stay active and engage fully in school. Investments like these create more opportunities for students to thrive both inside and outside the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assemblymember Catalina Cruz joined Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., Council Members Shekar Krishnan and Shanel Thomas-Henry, Assemblymember&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-291122","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\/291122","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=291122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}