{"id":379022,"date":"2026-10-21T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379022\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:48:08","slug":"manhattan-institute-researcher-talks-ambulance-wait-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379022\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Institute researcher talks ambulance wait times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a council hearing on Tuesday, members of the City Council are considering legislation with the aim of implementing more transparency around ambulance wait times.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report from the city comptroller&#8217;s office found that ambulance response times in the city increased by nearly four minutes from 2015 to 2026. Responses for non-emergencies doubled to nearly 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department and EMS personnel testified that many have tried to sound the alarm about wait times, but they say those warnings haven\u2019t led to enough action.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Mangual, head of research for the Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Policing and Public Safety Initiative, joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Wednesday to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a council hearing on Tuesday, members of the City Council are considering legislation with the aim of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3110,25,75,84,83,9,24,12,2370,63,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-379022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-annika-pergament","tag-app-top-stories","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379022","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=379022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}