{"id":47,"date":"2009-02-02T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:35:52","slug":"shea_stadium_demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/shea_stadium_demolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Shea Stadium Demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/05\/see-ya-demolishing-yankee-stadium-carefully\/\">Unlike Yankee Stadium<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/demolition\/index.htm\">demolition of Shea Stadium<\/a> is moving along rather quickly. Not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2009\/02\/01\/2009-02-01_loyal_mets_fans_shea_goodbye-1.html\">one<\/a> but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/01\/nyregion\/01shea.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">two<\/a> articles this weekend pointed out this fact, so we figured we should get over there before it&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s pretty fantastic to see:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/demolition\/2802-01-09.jpg\" alt=\"Shea Stadium Demolition, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, February 1, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/demolition\/3802-01-09.jpg\" alt=\"Shea Stadium Demolition, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, February 1, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/demolition\/4302-01-09.jpg\" alt=\"Shea Stadium Demolition, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, February 1, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks chintzy like a sardine can when they peel away the blue facade.<\/p>\n<p>There were several groups of people taking pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/demolition\/3002-01-09.jpg\" alt=\"Shea Stadium Demolition, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, February 1, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02022009\/news\/regionalnews\/cop_tagged_out_at_shea_153155.htm\">a rookie cop was arrested for trespassing &#8220;early Friday&#8221;<\/a> . . . even though you can roam right up to the chainlink fence, I guess they look down on hanging out there at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Yankee Stadium, the demolition of Shea Stadium is moving along rather quickly. Not one but two articles this weekend pointed out this fact, so we figured we should get over there before it&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s pretty fantastic to see: It looks chintzy like a sardine can when they peel away the blue facade. There [&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-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}