{"id":321652,"date":"2026-08-14T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:30:10","slug":"politics-unusual-mamdanis-honeymoon-period-with-nyc-horse-carriages-in-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321652\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics Unusual: Mamdani&#8217;s &#8216;honeymoon&#8217; period with NYC, horse carriages in Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">In this episode of Politics Unusual, FOX 5 NY&#8217;s political reporter Morgan McKay speaks to Chris Sommerfeldt, POLITICO&#8217;s City Hall reporter, and Ben Max, the host of &#8220;Max Politics,&#8221; about whether Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s &#8220;honeymoon period&#8221; with New York City has come to an end. Also, a conversation with TWU International President John Samuelsen about potentially banning horse carriages in Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0August 14, 2026 5:50pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this episode of Politics Unusual, FOX 5 NY&#8217;s political reporter Morgan McKay speaks to Chris Sommerfeldt, POLITICO&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-321652","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\/321652","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=321652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}