By Suzanne Ma
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
GREENWICH VILLAGE — Community Board 1 chair and NBC talk show host Julie Menin won't step aside after all.
Although she said last month that she would step down to spend more time with her three young children and juggle the demands of her new television show, she changed her mind, she said, after talking to friends and colleagues who convinced her to stay.
"I'll run again, if you'll have me," Menin said Tuesday night during a monthly board meeting. She shrugged her shoulders and smiled as a neighborhood residents and board members erupted into applause.
Menin is now at the center of the debate in lower Manhattan over the forthcoming terror trials. The board is sending a resolution to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that the trials' venue be moved out of the neighborhood.
She has also requested to meet with Holder personally to discuss the issue.
The show, "Julie Menin's Give and Take," where she interviews guests from conservative author Ann Coulter to CNN anchor Campbell Brown, airs Sundays at 7 p.m. on WNBC's new 24-hour news channel, New York Nonstop.
She was elected to CB1 during a special election in 2005 and was unanimously reelected twice, according to her Web site.
She is also the founder and former president of Wall Street Rising, a non-profit business group created to help Lower Manhattan get back on its feet after the terror attacks of Sept. 11.
