{"id":40,"date":"2009-01-25T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:35:06","slug":"one_times_square_midtown_manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/one_times_square_midtown_manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"One Times Square, Midtown Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Year&#8217;s Eve ball on top of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/timessquare\/onetimessquare\/index.htm\">One Times Square<\/a> is now a year-round feature (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/01\/06\/2009-01-06_new_year_ball_becomes_365dayayear_ball_i.html\">for example<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/timessquare\/onetimessquare\/0501-21-09.jpg\" alt=\"New Year's Eve Ball, One Times Square, Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, January 21, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And before the ground floor finally became a Walgreen&#8217;s . . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/timessquare\/onetimessquare\/1001-21-09.jpg\" alt=\"One Times Square From 42nd Street and Broadway, Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, January 21, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . it was vacant for some time. The best use for the space was the DEA&#8217;s traveling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/timessquare\/targetamerica\/index.htm\">Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists and You Exhibit<\/a>. The exhibit is now called, &#8220;Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause.&#8221; I guess they had problems answering the smart ass in the back who kept insisting that the link between personal drug use and international terrorism was as good a reason as any to simply grow your own . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Year&#8217;s Eve ball on top of One Times Square is now a year-round feature (see for example): And before the ground floor finally became a Walgreen&#8217;s . . . . . . it was vacant for some time. The best use for the space was the DEA&#8217;s traveling Target America: Drug Traffickers, Terrorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}