{"id":361698,"date":"2026-10-01T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361698\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:20:48","slug":"astoria-runner-on-team-alz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361698\/","title":{"rendered":"Astoria Runner On Team ALZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Queens, more than 51,700 residents aged 65 and older have Alzheimer\u2019s. With the New York City Marathon coming around the corner, Team ALZ (Alzheimer\u2019s Association marathon team) has a local runner from Astoria running the race. Her name is Melissa Vogan. Melissa is a full-mission volunteer for the Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0Association\u00a0New York City Chapter. She has been part of the Queens Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s committee for several years and will now be running her first New York City Marathon. She has currently raised $5,471.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melissa will be honoring her aunt\/godmother, Diane Corjulo, who passed away from early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s on January 14, 2026. The New York City Marathon will be exactly one week before what would have been her 65th birthday. Melissa\u2019s fundraising link: events.alz.org\/fundraisers\/melissavogan\/nyc-marathon\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213497 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Np_c_yPA-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Vogan will be running her first New York City Marathon as part of Team ALZ.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 In Queens, more than 51,700 residents aged 65 and older have Alzheimer\u2019s. With the New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-361698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361698","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=361698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}