{"id":734150,"date":"2026-04-17T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/734150\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:31:48","slug":"people-here-say-what-they-mean-and-mean-what-they-say-leslie-boghosian-murphys-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/734150\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;People Here Say What They Mean, and Mean What They Say&#8221; \u2014 Leslie Boghosian Murphy&#8217;s West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As early voting approaches, Leslie Boghosian Murphy shares her West Side Story \u2014 the last in a series with all four candidates ahead of the April 28 special election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leslie-Boghosian-Murphy_9490.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139372\"\/>Leslie Boghosian Murphy is a candidate in the April 28 Special Election to replace former council member Erik Bottcher. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what\u2019s your New York story? Born here, or just arrived?<br \/><\/strong>I am a 3rd generation New Yorker. My grandparents fled Armenian Genocide and landed here in NYC, not knowing a stitch of English. My dad grew up in Queens, the son of a window washer, and is a City College grad. He and my mom opened a small cheese shop in Jersey, where I grew up. I\u2019m now proud to call Hell\u2019s Kitchen home for the past 22 years. My 13-year old daughter was born here and our roots are firm in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As early voting approaches, Leslie Boghosian Murphy shares her West Side Story \u2014 the last in a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":734151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,301971,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-734150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-election2026","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"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116419356528081076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734150","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=734150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}