{"id":334224,"date":"2026-08-31T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334224\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:16:14","slug":"listen-the-brooklyn-dems-bring-veep-to-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334224\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: The Brooklyn Dems Bring \u2018Veep\u2019 to Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t do much reporting on the Brooklyn Democratic Party because so many other people in our newsroom usually do, but because I\u2019ve been living in Rockaway, I said to my hardworking colleague and friend Gwynne, \u2018I\u2019ll go. I\u2019ve got a car and it\u2019s 15 minutes from where I\u2019ve been living. It\u2019s all good.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, that borough was nuts. You guys are crazy over there, right? I was like, \u2018Get me back to Queens ASAP.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katie Honan looks back on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityreporter.nyc\/2026\/08\/25\/rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn-brooklyn-democrats-rule-changes-new-kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a wild scene<\/a> as Brooklyn Democratic Party bosses changed their party\u2019s rules in a closed-door vote to try and hold onto power after losing an open election. She, Chrissy and Harry dig into the Mamdani administration\u2019s 2-K payment problems, the unanswered question of how the city is going to pay for the new administration\u2019s $4 billion Brooklyn-Queens Expressway repairs, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t do much reporting on the Brooklyn Democratic Party because so many other people in our newsroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-334224","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\/334224","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=334224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}