{"id":494008,"date":"2026-02-27T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494008\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:16:17","slug":"new-cultural-center-coming-to-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494008\/","title":{"rendered":"New cultural center coming to Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bella Zarate<\/p>\n<p>A long-anticipated project aimed at preserving and revitalizing Manhattan\u2019s historic Black community is moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Ellis-Glasper, executive director of the Black Entrepreneurs of the Flint Hills, said the organization will break ground at 2 p.m. March 10 for construction of the Yuma Street Cultural Center at 930 Yuma St. \u2014 an area long recognized as the heart of Manhattan\u2019s Black history.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis-Glasper said the project represents a step toward honoring a community shaped by resilience during segregation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/new-cultural-center-coming-to-manhattan\/article_81b1053d-f6d6-43b6-9198-7ba21273cb61.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bella Zarate A long-anticipated project aimed at preserving and revitalizing Manhattan\u2019s historic Black community is moving forward.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-494008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}