{"id":297527,"date":"2026-07-16T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:41:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mayor-expands-city-response-as-poor-air-quality-continues-across-the-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297527\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mayor Expands City Response As Poor Air Quality Continues Across The Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Mamdani has extended resources to New Yorkers as extreme heart and air quality alerts remain in effect. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">To help New Yorkers stay cool, the city says cooling centers will remain open today. To find the closet cooling center near you check out the NYC <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/finder.nyc.gov\/coolingcenters\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For protection against the air quality, free KN95 masks are being distributed in different locations. New Yorkers can pick up a free mask at libraries, precincts, firehouses, and more. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Distribution locations can be found <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/viewer?ll=40.71973509969564%2C-73.90203213&amp;mid=1emajupNxWTcHDXmGeexlKR7NUx4yhww&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;z=9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Department of Social Services will be launching outreach teams will increase canvassing to distribute masks and connect homeless New Yorkers with cool, air-conditioned spaces <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani has extended resources to New Yorkers as extreme heart and air quality alerts remain in effect.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-297527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297527","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=297527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}