Arts and Culture
New York City sits at the nexus of arts, history, music, and culture in the United States. From the Greenwich Village to Sunset Park and everything in between, Congressman Goldman is pushing to support arts and culture across NY-10.
Congressman Goldman has introduced:
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act to establish a museum and education center at the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan
Congressman Goldman is a member of the Public Broadcasting Caucus.
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October 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Dan Goldman (NY-10), Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (CA-41) and Congressional Equality Caucus Co-Chair Ritchie Torres (NY-15) led 69 House Democrats today in sending a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Acting National Park Service Director Jessica Bowron opposing the NPS’ move to rewrite history across national parks and demanding the immediate restoration of references to transgender and queer Americans erased from the Stonewall National Monument website and Pride display.
October 15, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (NY-09) led a letter with 25 other Members of Congress urging the U.S. Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp honoring the Freedom’s Journal on the 200th anniversary of its founding. The letter, sent to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee and Postmaster General, highlights the newspaper’s historic role as the first African American-owned and operated publication in the United States.
September 6, 2025
As the Twin Towers were burning on 9/11, Donald Trump bragged that his downtown building was now the tallest in Lower Manhattan and later spread Islamophobic hate.
July 18, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) hosted renowned kids’ science education advocate Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” to highlight the vital role public broadcasting plays in K–12 education and community resilience. Following the Senate’s narrow approval earlier this week, House Republicans this morning passed President Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package, which eliminates all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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June 12, 2025
“As part of Donald Trump’s rescissions bill that House Republicans just rubber stamped, they voted to eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, betraying their own constituents who rely on public media and educational and emergency resources provided by CPB.
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June 9, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Co-Chairs of the Public Broadcasting Caucus, Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-02), issued a joint statement urging the Trump Administration to reconsider rescissions in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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June 3, 2025
Washington, D.C – Co-Chair of the Congressional Public Broadcasting Caucus Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10), alongside Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA–07) led 103 of their House Democratic colleagues in writing to the House Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Aderholt and Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro to request the federal government’s budget for the 2026 Fiscal Year fully fund public programming, including $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) two-year advance, level funding of $31 million for the Department of Education’s Ready To Learn grant program, and level funding of $60 million for public broadcasting Interconnection system.
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March 26, 2025
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Mark Amodei (NV-02), Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Public Broadcasting Caucus, alongside Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Doris Matsui (CA-07), led 16 of their colleagues in sending a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr expressing their support for public broadcasting amidst the Trump Administration’s calls to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
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February 26, 2025
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in introducing both the ‘African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Feasibility Study Act,’ and the ‘African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act’. These pieces of bicameral legislation establish an African Burial Ground Museum under the National Park Service (NPS) and requires NPS to study the feasibility of building the museum adjacent to the African Burial Ground Monument.
February 19, 2025
Congressman Dan Goldman joined Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) in introducing the ‘National Council on African American History and Culture Act of 2025,’ which would establish a 12-person National Council on African American History and Culture to educate, preserve, and celebrate Black history and culture.
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