{"id":57951,"date":"2015-10-29T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=57951"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:56:30","slug":"a-new-beginning-first-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=57951","title":{"rendered":"A New Beginning: First Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM<br \/>\nHistoric Flushing Town Hall<br \/>\n137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11354<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gala.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[57951]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57952\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce in Celebrating a New Beginning for our Community<\/p>\n<p>Help celebrate our first anniversary as a multicultural membership association of entrepreneurs, business owners, and civic leaders in the most diverse community in New York!<\/p>\n<p>Our Chamber represents the fastest growing and most dynamic business community in the United States. Attracting firms from around the world \u2013 two dozen languages are spoken here \u2013 we are already an international trade hub and the fourth largest commercial district in New York. As the center of small business activity in the metropolitan region \u2013 90% of our 6,000 firms have less than 10 workers \u2013 we are also the new face of American entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>With your support, we have accomplished much this year \u2013 establishing Flushing\u2019s first night market at Flushing Town Hall, creating a free English program with Monroe College, connecting local businesses with hundreds of skilled workers at our Green Job Fair, advocating for better transit and infrastructure investment, establishing a new model for entrepreneurs to build credit. Join us as we celebrate these accomplishments and more!<\/p>\n<p>Honorary Host Committee:<\/p>\n<p>Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, Congresswoman Grace Meng, Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Assemblyman Ron Kim, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, Councilman Peter Koo, Rev. Richard McEachern, Simon Gerson, Chris Kui, Don Capalbi, Mike Cheng, Taehoon Kim, Ellen Kodadek, Michael Lam, Alfred Rankins, Maureen Regan, Leo Zhang, Perka Chan, Alice Lee, Edna Rutledge, Helen Yang, Al Harris, Haide Chen, Mabel Law, Richard Siu, Alfonso Quiroz, Regina Im, Lloyd Cambridge, and John Choe.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/a-new-beginning-first-anniversary-celebration-tickets-18854280661\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nUpdates available at:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/107219549628903\/\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.facebook.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Historic Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11354<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57955,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57951\/revisions\/57955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}