{"id":421,"date":"2012-03-11T18:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2012-03-11T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T02:14:20","slug":"when-theaters-become-duane-reades-and-chase-banks-and-new-york-sports-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/when-theaters-become-duane-reades-and-chase-banks-and-new-york-sports-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"When Theaters Become Duane Reades . . . And Chase Banks And New York Sports Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/12\/arts\/millennium-theater-in-brighton-beach-as-link-to-old-country.html\">This Times article about the Millennium Theater in Brighton Beach<\/a> was interesting &#8212; so many theaters have been shuttered over the years that it&#8217;s cool to see a theater being used for something approximating what it was meant for &#8212; i.e., some performance of some sort.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brightonbeach\/avenue\/24oceana.jpg\" alt=\"Atlantic Oceana Theatre, 1029 Brighton Beach Avenue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cool because <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/batclub\/status\/179007067288387584\">so many theaters are now Duane Reades or whatnot<\/a>, to which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RICANROLL\/status\/179011579629674496\">@RICANROLL tweeted<\/a> like the theater on 30th Avenue and Steinway is now a Duane Reade. Yup, that&#8217;s exactly which one I was thinking. We walked by it yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/astoria\/astoriaplaza\/0303-10-12.jpg\" alt=\"Astoria Plaza, Steinway Street and 30th Avenue, NW Corner, Astoria, Queens, March 10, 2012\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Astoria Sixplex (which I actually went to once or twice before it closed in 2002) actually became a Duane Reade, a Chase bank and a New York Sports Club.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even upset that @RICANROLL fucked me by spoiling a Walking Dead plot point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Times article about the Millennium Theater in Brighton Beach was interesting &#8212; so many theaters have been shuttered over the years that it&#8217;s cool to see a theater being used for something approximating what it was meant for &#8212; i.e., some performance of some sort. It&#8217;s cool because so many theaters are now Duane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}