{"id":339433,"date":"2026-09-06T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339433\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:48:33","slug":"speaker-menin-on-living-near-ground-zero-on-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339433\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Menin on living near Ground Zero on 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s &#8220;In Focus,&#8221; City Council Speaker Julie Menin reflects on her experience living and running a business near Ground Zero on 9\/11, including the lasting health impact on her family and the many first responders and survivors who later developed cancer.<\/p>\n<p>She discusses her efforts to release city records on 9\/11 environmental toxins and explains how the tragedy inspired her to enter public service and dedicate years to rebuilding Lower Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week&#8217;s &#8220;In Focus,&#8221; City Council Speaker Julie Menin reflects on her experience living and running a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":["post-339433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339433","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=339433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}