{"id":339271,"date":"2026-09-06T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:06:33","slug":"van-nest-residents-clash-over-a-bill-that-would-recognize-little-yemen-as-a-cultural-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339271\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Nest residents clash over a bill that would recognize Little Yemen as a cultural district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Van Nest community clashed with their local community board Thursday over its support for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/A7033\/amendment\/original\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bill<\/a> that would designate a four-block area of the neighborhood as a Yemeni cultural district.<\/p>\n<p>Bronx Community Board 11, which represents Allerton, Indian Village, Morris Park, Pelham Gardens, Pelham Parkway and Van Nest, was considering a letter of support for the designation when members of the Van Nest Neighborhood Alliance and other residents voiced their opposition.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/van-nest-residents-clash-over-a-bill-that-would-recognize-little-yemen-as-a-cultural-district\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tVan Nest residents clash over a bill that would recognize Little Yemen as a cultural district &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Van Nest community clashed with their local community board Thursday over its support for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[127089,127090,128,127091,1882,127092,127093,525,2610,9,24,12,63,127094,127095,129,131,130,15281,127096,127097,13627,85692],"class_list":["post-339271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-assembly-member-john-zaccaro","tag-assemblywoman-nathalia-fernandez","tag-bronx","tag-cb11","tag-community","tag-ethnic-enclaves","tag-little-yemen","tag-morris-park","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-sam-ghaleb","tag-sharlene-jackson-mendez","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-van-nest","tag-van-nest-neighborhood-alliance","tag-yahay-obeid","tag-yemen","tag-yemeni-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339271","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=339271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}