{"id":558860,"date":"2026-02-01T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/558860\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:08:07","slug":"qa-with-bronx-borough-president-vanessa-gibson-on-accomplishments-and-second-term-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/558860\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson on accomplishments and second term goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Borough President <a href=\"https:\/\/bronxboropres.nyc.gov\/vanessa-l-gibson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vanessa L.\u00a0 Gibson<\/a> was elected into office on November 2, 2021, serving over 1.3 million residents as the first woman and first African American to hold the office of the Bronx Borough President. A New York native, Gibson continues to serve the Bronx as she begins her second term.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/2026-inauguration-ceremony-of-vanessa-l-gibson-tickets-1980597758211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">inauguration<\/a> is Feb. 1 from 3 p.m, to 6 p.m., at the Lehman College Performing Arts Center. Staff at the Bronx Times spoke with Gibson about her accomplishments during her first term, like Bally\u2019s Bronx, getting funding for the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory, and her priorities for the future \u2014 like working with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on prioritizing the Bronx and seeing through projects such as a Bronx birthing center.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/vanessa-gibson-reflects-on-accomplishments-and-second-term-goals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tEXCLUSIVE: Q&amp;A with Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson on accomplishments and second term goals &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Borough President Vanessa L.\u00a0 Gibson was elected into office on November 2, 2021, serving over 1.3 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,244233,192467,244234,718,43851,212730,111413,244235,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,235973,244236,5301],"class_list":["post-558860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-ballys-casino-bronx","tag-bronx-borough-president","tag-bronx-birthing-center","tag-community","tag-gentrification","tag-inauguration","tag-kingsbridge-armory","tag-morris-park-redevelopment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vanessa-gibson","tag-vanessa-gibson-inauguration","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115996006963717670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}