{"id":378273,"date":"2026-10-20T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378273\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:20:07","slug":"gov-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-to-establish-little-yemen-cultural-district-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378273\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bill to establish Little Yemen cultural district in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to designate a portion of Van Nest as a Little Yemen cultural district was signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Oct 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bill has sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/van-nest-residents-clash-over-a-bill-that-would-recognize-little-yemen-as-a-cultural-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">local controversy<\/a> in Van Nest, with some community members using Bronx Community Board 11 meetings as a forum for their opposition, claiming that the Yemeni-American community has not contributed culturally to the community. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/hochul-signs-bill-little-yemen-cultural-district\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tGov. Kathy Hochul signs bill to establish Little Yemen cultural district in the Bronx &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill to designate a portion of Van Nest as a Little Yemen cultural district was signed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70313,138946,4363,138947,426,127093,74049,2610,9,11,10,12,15281,127096,127097],"class_list":["post-378273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-community-board-11","tag-cultural-district","tag-islamophobia","tag-john-zaccaro","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-little-yemen","tag-nathalia-fernandez","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-van-nest","tag-van-nest-neighborhood-alliance","tag-yahay-obeid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378273","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=378273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}