{"id":315992,"date":"2026-08-07T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:04:07","slug":"how-a-neighborhood-in-nyc-became-the-center-of-democratic-socialist-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315992\/","title":{"rendered":"How a neighborhood in NYC became the center of democratic socialist power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XTKI3DZR7NDTNB4O4RHTAWZTWI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 Pura Barakos\u2019s house near the heart of this city\u2019s Astoria neighborhood has stood out as a symbol of left-wing activism for more than 30 years. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HUGZCAZRJFGETBVWSLN64PDB64\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For most of the time, Barakos said her home \u2014 which is covered in bumper stickers promoting her political views \u2014 felt like an island in a neighborhood historically dominated by White working class and relatively conservative residents. On several occasions, Barakos recalled, vandals sneaked up to her house and spattered it with tar or paint to obscure her views about gun control, civil rights or U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Pura Barakos\u2019s house near the heart of this city\u2019s Astoria neighborhood has stood out as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-315992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315992","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=315992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}