{"id":339721,"date":"2026-09-07T05:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339721\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:08:36","slug":"city-council-speaker-menin-on-9-11-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339721\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Speaker Menin on 9\/11 Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Council Speaker Julie Menin reflects on her role on the jury that selected the design for the 9\/11 Memorial, describing the challenge of honoring victims and first responders while creating a site that would reconnect Lower Manhattan&#8217;s neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>She also recalls the devastating impact 9\/11 had on local businesses and residents, and the grassroots efforts that helped bring the area back to life. Menin discusses the importance of preserving that history for a generation that was not alive when the attacks occurred, including the city&#8217;s effort to bring every eighth-grade public school student to the memorial and museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Council Speaker Julie Menin reflects on her role on the jury that selected the design for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7488,7490,7423,7487,75,84,83,9,24,63,200],"class_list":["post-339721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339721","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=339721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}