{"id":53348,"date":"2025-11-26T20:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53348\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:37:21","slug":"rana-abdelhamid-officially-launches-campaign-to-replace-mamdani-in-queens-assembly-district-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53348\/","title":{"rendered":"Rana Abdelhamid officially launches campaign to replace Mamdani in Queens Assembly District 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Rana Abdelhamid, a prominent community organizer in western Queens who currently serves as executive director of anti-violence nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malikah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Malikah<\/a>, officially launched her campaign to succeed Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in Assembly District 36 with an event in Astoria Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelhamid, joined by a number of community leaders, spoke to dozens of supporters at a Nov. 25 campaign launch event at Zyara at 25-53 Steinway St., pledging to fight for affordable housing protections, universal childcare, immigrant protections and community safety programs if she is elected to Albany.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2025\/11\/rana-abdelhamid-officially-launches-campaign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tRana Abdelhamid officially launches campaign to replace Mamdani in Queens Assembly District 36 &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Rana Abdelhamid, a prominent community organizer in western Queens who currently serves as executive director of anti-violence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[29436,3814,29437,310,29438,17690,29439,2610,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,29440,29441],"class_list":["post-53348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-assembly-district-36","tag-astoria","tag-cec-30","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-diana-moreno","tag-evie-hantzopoulos","tag-malikah","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rana-abdelhamid","tag-whitney-toussaint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53348","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=53348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53348\/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=53348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}