{"id":391386,"date":"2026-11-02T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391386\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T23:00:10","slug":"mamdani-and-hochul-visit-queens-night-market-to-get-out-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391386\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani and Hochul Visit Queens Night Market to Get Out the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was surreal, emotional a little bit,\u201d said Asad, who declined to share his last name. Asad said he was born in Karachi, Pakistan, became a U.S. citizen in 2022, and voted for Mamdani after moving to New York from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>At the Ella Spice stand, Akera Phillip represents Grenada with breadfruit croquettes, fried cou-cou, and to-go pouches of sorrel. Phillip, who named her business after her grandmother, felt \u201celated\u201d and \u201cblessed\u201d to serve her food to the leaders of the state and the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a small island girl, it just made me feel big,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Akera Phillips of Ella Spice catering holds a basket of croquettes and limes in one hand and a business card in another.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9065.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Akera Phillip holds breadfruit croquettes.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Gabe Hiatt<\/p>\n<p>At the Epis by Steve tent, Hochul told Steve Lahens she could handle \u201cBuffalo spicy,\u201d a nod to her hometown, rather than admit to any trouble with his Haitian pikliz. Lahens and his wife fixed up plates of griot (fried pork) with diri djondjon (black rice) and makawoni au graten, a Caribbean mac and cheese he makes with bell peppers, \u201cevaporated milk and a few little things I can\u2019t talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was surreal, emotional a little bit,\u201d said Asad, who declined to share his last name. Asad said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[76665,17,9,24,63,15422,122,124,123,5687],"class_list":["post-391386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bon_appetit","tag-culture","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-paywall-exclude","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-splitscreenimagerightfullbleed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391386","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=391386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}