{"id":351966,"date":"2026-09-20T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351966\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:38:12","slug":"from-bagels-to-ballots-staten-island-business-owner-is-stepping-into-world-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351966\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bagels to Ballots: Staten Island Business Owner Is Stepping Into World of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Casey O&#8217;Connor-Manasia is the Republican candidate for state Assembly in the North Shore, and she&#8217;s also a Staten Island small-business owner. She spent years working as a waitress, bartender, medical assistant, stockbroker and restaurant manager before opening two local bagel shops. O&#8217;Connor-Manasia opened Hillside Farm to Bagel in Dongan Hills in 2022, then Castleton Farm to Bagel in West Brighton in 2024. She said politics was not part of the plan until a friend asked her to run, and she is focused on cannabis shops, waterfront development and safety. She said she lives, works and raises her kids here, and wants to take the community&#8217;s real voices to Albany. Her teenage daughter attends Susan Wagner High School, and O&#8217;Connor-Manasia drives her to school daily because she lacks confidence in public transportation safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey O&#8217;Connor-Manasia is the Republican candidate for state Assembly in the North Shore, and she&#8217;s also a Staten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[58590,131380,131379,131378,9,24,63,9803,3476,134,136,135,128799],"class_list":["post-351966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-cannabis-shops","tag-castleton-farm","tag-hillside-farm","tag-local-bagel-shops","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-republican-candidate","tag-state-assembly","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-susan-wagner-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351966","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=351966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}