{"id":437,"date":"2012-04-01T21:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-04-02T01:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T05:19:43","slug":"several-random-things-from-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/several-random-things-from-may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Random Things From May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynbridgepark\/index.htm\">Brooklyn Bridge Park<\/a>, which was a lot more elegant than I expected, especially considering how ugly\/utilitarian the piers used to be:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynheights\/promenade\/06pier2.jpg\" alt=\"Pier 2 From Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, November 3, 2005\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynheights\/promenade\/10pier2.jpg\" alt=\"Pier 2 From Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, November 3, 2005\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynheights\/promenade\/12pier2.jpg\" alt=\"Pier 2 From Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn, November 3, 2005\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like, where did all that dirt <em>come from<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynbridgepark\/05-13-11\/2405-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynbridgepark\/05-13-11\/2705-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynbridgepark\/05-13-11\/2905-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a staircase thing-place that overlooks Lower Manhattan, which is just stunning. Propose here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynbridgepark\/05-13-11\/3005-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grimaldi&#8217;s has since moved from its longtime location, just down the street at 1 Old Fulton Street:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/fultonferry\/fultonstreet\/0305-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"Old Fulton Street, Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really, really want to start a &#8220;I [Heart] Unicorns 4-Eva&#8221; meme:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/timessquare\/subway\/1205-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"I [Heart] Unicorns 4-Eva, Southbound ACE Platform, Times Square Subway Station, Midtown Manhattan, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember when they thought the world would end on May 21? And people spent their life savings on subway ads? Why did they do that? Not because they weren&#8217;t right (they weren&#8217;t), but what difference would it make if you saw this ad on the subway beforehand?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/subway\/ads\/0505-22-11.jpg\" alt=\"May 21, 2011 Doomsday Subway Ad, Queens-Bound N Train, May 22, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One day they&#8217;ll finish the East Side Access project. For now, it&#8217;s kind of a constant thing:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/lic\/eastsideaccess\/0105-18-11.jpg\" alt=\"LIRR East Side Access, Long Island City, Queens, May 18, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vacant spaces are so strange looking, like repeating a word over and over until it sounds completely foreign:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/brooklynheights\/60henrystreet\/0405-13-11.jpg\" alt=\"60 Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, May 13, 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I sat outside a bar one night in May 2011 staring at the bright lights in this space, just sort of pondering how weird it looked. <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynheightsblog.com\/archives\/tag\/60-henry-street\">Now I know that it&#8217;s a &#8220;cursed&#8221; spot<\/a>, only recently occupied by a somewhat stable business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of which is Brooklyn Bridge Park, which was a lot more elegant than I expected, especially considering how ugly\/utilitarian the piers used to be: It&#8217;s like, where did all that dirt come from? There&#8217;s a staircase thing-place that overlooks Lower Manhattan, which is just stunning. Propose here: Grimaldi&#8217;s has since moved from its longtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-citywide","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}