{"id":1747,"date":"2006-11-06T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/the_sports_authority_bus_terminal_is_the_obvious_front_runner.html"},"modified":"2006-11-06T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T19:10:20","slug":"the_sports_auth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/the_sports_auth.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Sports Authority Bus Terminal&#8221; Is The Obvious Front Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naming rights for the Port Authority Bus Terminal are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11062006\/news\/regionalnews\/hilling_station_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan__transit_reporter.htm\">up for grabs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Port Authority wants to sell naming rights to the hulking Midtown bus terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Sports fans sometimes cry foul when teams sell companies naming rights to their stadiums &#8212; such as when the Houston Astros embarrassingly played at Enron Field.<\/p>\n<p>But PA officials doubt that even the most ardent preservationists would bemoan the loss of &#8220;Port Authority Bus Terminal&#8221; from the cityscape.<\/p>\n<p>And money earned by changing the name to Verizon Terminal or Nike Bus Station, for example, could be used to further renovate and improve the long-lackluster facilities, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of dollars in upgrades have been made to the station since it was a glorified homeless shelter in the 1970s and &#8217;80s. But it would take assistance from the private sector to make the terminal &#8212; used by 200,000 people each day &#8212; a destination in its own right, sources said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naming rights for the Port Authority Bus Terminal are up for grabs: The Port Authority wants to sell naming rights to the hulking Midtown bus terminal. Sports fans sometimes cry foul when teams sell companies naming rights to their stadiums &#8212; such as when the Houston Astros embarrassingly played at Enron Field. But PA officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}