{"id":47889,"date":"2025-11-21T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47889\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:58:09","slug":"queens-brooklyn-rep-nydia-velazquez-announces-retirement-after-33-years-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47889\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens\/Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez announces retirement after 33 years in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn in Congress, announced that she will not seek reelection next year at the end of her 16th term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Vel\u00e1zquez 72, became the first Puerto Rican ever elected to Congress in 1992 but announced Thursday night that she would not be seeking a 17th term in office.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2025\/11\/velazquez-retirement-33-years-in-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tQueens\/Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez announces retirement after 33 years in office &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn in Congress, announced that she will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[26936,314,26937,26938,310,4097,9090,2610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,1577,13558],"class_list":["post-47889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-7th-congressio","tag-assembly-member-zohran-mamdani","tag-congressmember-hakeem-jeffries","tag-congressmember-nydia-velazquez","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-jerry-nadler","tag-long-island-city","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-retirement","tag-sunnyside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47889","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=47889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}