{"id":862959,"date":"2026-06-12T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862959\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:21:42","slug":"community-diversity-acceptance-that-is-hells-kitchen-for-me-nina-schwalbes-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862959\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCommunity, Diversity, Acceptance. That is Hell\u2019s Kitchen for Me\u201d \u2014\u00a0Nina Schwalbe\u2019s West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As early voting approaches, Nina Schwalbe shares her West Side Story \u2014 part of a series with six of the candidates running to replace Jerry Nadler for New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District ahead of the June 23 primary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Nina-schwalbe_4137.jpg\" alt=\"Nina Schwalbe\" class=\"wp-image-146410\"\/>Nina Schwalbe is a public health advocate living on the Upper West Side. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So what\u2019s your New York story? Born here, or just arrived?<br \/><\/strong>My family (on my mother\u2019s side) has been in this district for six generations. My children were born here and my parents died here. My career and my work with UNICEF and the UN has taken me around the world. But no matter where in the world I\u2019ve been, New York has always been home.<\/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, Nina Schwalbe shares her West Side Story \u2014 part of a series with six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":862960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,279818,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-862959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-ny-12","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\/116739001955533246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862959","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=862959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}