{"id":47467,"date":"2025-11-21T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47467\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:20:21","slug":"nydia-velazquez-16-term-brooklyn-congresswoman-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47467\/","title":{"rendered":"Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, 16-term Brooklyn congresswoman, announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, the veteran progressive congresswoman who has represented New York\u2019s 7th Congressional District for more than three decades, announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1zquez, who is 72 years old and was first elected in 1993, called for a new generation of the Democratic Party to step forward.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/nydia-velazquez-announces-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNydia Vel\u00e1zquez, 16-term Brooklyn congresswoman, announces retirement &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, the veteran progressive congresswoman who has represented New York\u2019s 7th Congressional District for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,858,26912,26913,26914,26915,9,24,692,12,370,26916,63,26917,26918,8004,87,26919,123,82],"class_list":["post-47467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-congress","tag-congressional-succession","tag-democratic-party-leadership","tag-jerry-nadler-retirement","tag-la-luchadora","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-ny-7-congressional-district","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-elections","tag-nyc-progressive-leaders","tag-nydia-velazquez","tag-politics","tag-puerto-rico-politics","tag-queens-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47467","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=47467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}