{"id":374510,"date":"2026-10-16T04:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374510\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T04:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:16:56","slug":"even-after-7-years-in-albany-staten-islands-mike-reilly-says-the-old-cop-in-me-never-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374510\/","title":{"rendered":"Even After 7 Years in Albany, Staten Island&#8217;s Mike Reilly Says &#8216;The Old Cop in Me&#8217; Never Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staten Island Assemblyman Michael Reilly is running unopposed, with public safety and infrastructure among his priorities. The former law enforcement officer says his policing background still shapes his approach to public service. He wants immediate funding for a new Outerbridge and improvements to the Korean War Veterans Parkway. He also supports funding an independent study of Staten Island secession from New York City. On battery storage facilities, he favors greater separation from homes. Reilly has represented the South Shore&#8217;s 62nd Assembly District since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staten Island Assemblyman Michael Reilly is running unopposed, with public safety and infrastructure among his priorities. The former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-374510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374510","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=374510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}