{"id":1802,"date":"2006-11-21T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/next_stop_on_this_pelham_bay-bound_6_local_train_lot_less_closeout-hunts_point_avenue.html"},"modified":"2006-11-21T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T17:34:02","slug":"next_stop_on_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/next_stop_on_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Next Stop On This Pelham Bay-Bound 6 Local Train: Lot Less Closeout-Hunts Point Avenue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/the_sports_auth.html\">Port Authority<\/a>, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/how_about_the_w.html\">the Mets<\/a>, and now it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/473335p-398245c.html\">everyone wants to cash in<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans on talking to Citigroup about changing the current names of two MTA stations: the Shea Stadium stops on the subway and commuter railroad systems, an authority spokesman confirms.<\/p>\n<p>Citigroup will pay the Mets $20 million a year to call the new ballpark Citi Field, and drop the name Shea. The deal was announced last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, we will be in discussions with Citigroup about naming rights,&#8221; MTA spokesman Tom Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>The MTA hired a team of consultants two years ago to research new ways of raising revenues by entering into &#8220;sponsorship&#8221; deals with corporations.<\/p>\n<p>MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow then ruled out renaming landmarks like Grand Central Terminal. Citigroup referred questions to Citibank officials. A spokesman said he&#8217;d look into the issue late yesterday afternoon but then couldn&#8217;t be reached.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the Port Authority, then the Mets, and now it seems everyone wants to cash in: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans on talking to Citigroup about changing the current names of two MTA stations: the Shea Stadium stops on the subway and commuter railroad systems, an authority spokesman confirms. Citigroup will pay the Mets $20 [&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-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}