{"id":97496,"date":"2026-01-12T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97496\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:44:07","slug":"zohran-mamdani-appoints-rafael-espinal-to-lead-new-york-citys-media-and-entertainment-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97496\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u00a0Appoints\u00a0Rafael Espinal to Lead New York City\u2019s Media and Entertainment Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor<\/a> Zohran Mamdani<\/a> has named Rafael Espinal<\/a> to lead the office of media and entertainment.<\/p>\n

Espinal, a former New York City Council member and Freelancers Union executive director, will be responsible for advancing the Mamdani administration\u2019s agenda to \u201censure New York City remains a place where artists and creatives can afford to live and work,\u201d according to the mayor\u2019s office. He will report to Julie Su<\/a>, deputy mayor of economic justice.<\/p>\n

The Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment \u2014 which includes the film office, NYC Media<\/a>, press credential office and programs and initiatives \u2014 oversees tasks such as coordinating with labor unions as well as permitting, licensing and incentives for filming in the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot tell the story of New York City without the artists who have shaped it. Yet, the cost-of-living crisis is driving creatives out of our city. That is a loss we cannot afford,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has named Rafael Espinal to lead the office of media and entertainment.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45100,45099,2558,45098,9,24,55,54,56,45101,45104,45102,45103,2559,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-97496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-fernsehen","9":"tag-filme","10":"tag-hollywood","11":"tag-nachrichten","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-prominente","18":"tag-regisseure","19":"tag-schauspieler","20":"tag-schauspielerinnen","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97496","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=97496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}