{"id":1203,"date":"2006-06-21T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/lighthouse_lovers_soon_will_be_able_to_crash_the_seagate.html"},"modified":"2006-06-21T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:25:23","slug":"lighthouse_love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/lighthouse_love.html","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Lovers Soon Will Be Able To Crash The (Sea)Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coney Island Lighthouse in the ultra-exclusive &#8212; or at least gated &#8212; Seagate neighborhood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/428363p-361241c.html\">will be opened for public tours for the first time ever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Brooklyn&#8217;s oldest lighthouse could be opened to the public for the first time in its 116-year history, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagate Association signed a five-year lease on the 80-foot-tall lighthouse this month, ending a century-long ownership by the U.S. Coast Guard and a ban on public tours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are millions of lighthouse lovers from all over the world who have heard about this lighthouse and would love to see it but have never had the chance,&#8221; said Seagate Association Treasurer Michael Breslof.<\/p>\n<p>By next summer, the association could begin hosting tours of the Beach 46th St. tower and a nearby home, where light keeper Frank Schubert lived until his death in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The tours would cost about $5 and would include visits to Schubert&#8217;s home at the foot of the tower, which is known both as the Coney Island Lighthouse and Norton&#8217;s Point Lighthouse.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coney Island Lighthouse in the ultra-exclusive &#8212; or at least gated &#8212; Seagate neighborhood will be opened for public tours for the first time ever: Brooklyn&#8217;s oldest lighthouse could be opened to the public for the first time in its 116-year history, the Daily News has learned. The Seagate Association signed a five-year lease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-historical","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}