{"id":314545,"date":"2026-08-05T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314545\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:22:07","slug":"queens-cm-hankerson-secures-unprecedented-29-1-million-in-funding-for-nyc-parks-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314545\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens CM Hankerson secures \u2018unprecedented\u2019 $29.1 million in funding for NYC Parks workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Queens Council Member Ty Hankerson announced that he secured an \u201cunprecedented\u201d $29.1 million in baseline funding for parks workers in the City Council\u2019s FY27 Budget. As a result of the funding, the Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP)<\/a> officers and other parks employees will continue to receive funding each budget season, protecting their positions long-term.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Queens Council Member Ty Hankerson announced that he secured an \u201cunprecedented\u201d $29.1 million in baseline funding for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[53443,310,2969,9,24,12,63,22458,113402,27176,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-314545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-council-member-ty-hankerson","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-funding","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-parks","tag-parks-enforcement-patrol","tag-pep","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314545","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=314545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314545\/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=314545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}