{"id":330378,"date":"2026-08-26T18:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330378\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:40:33","slug":"a-luxury-venue-commandeered-a-public-east-side-plaza-for-20-years-neighbors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330378\/","title":{"rendered":"A Luxury Venue Commandeered A Public East Side Plaza For 20 Years, Neighbors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

He eventually began requesting city documents and researching the site’s history, which he said showed that the area was intended to remain publicly accessible.<\/p>\n

The entrance to the plaza includes signage for the restaurant and a trellis. Miranda Levingston\/Patch <\/p>\n

Another plaintiff, Iskander Khan, told reporters Tuesday that he grew up in the neighborhood and remembers being kicked out of the plaza with his father when he was a child.<\/p>\n

In the years since, Khan said, the plaza has “always felt like I’m trespassing.”<\/p>\n

Brice Peyre, a representative for Councilmember Virginia Maloney, whose district includes much of the surrounding East Side, also spoke in support of the residents Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“We all know the old expression, ‘Get off my lawn,'” Peyre said. “In this case, the people telling us to get off their lawn don’t actually own the lawn.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He eventually began requesting city documents and researching the site’s history, which he said showed that the area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-330378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330378","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=330378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}