{"id":1851,"date":"2006-12-04T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/pimp_pimp_pimp_pimp_your_ass_off.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:25:48","slug":"pimp_pimp_pimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/pimp_pimp_pimp.html","title":{"rendered":"Pimp, Pimp, Pimp, Pimp Your Ass Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One possibility for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/his_idea_of_som.html\">&#8220;something spectacular&#8221;<\/a> at Coney Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12042006\/news\/regionalnews\/spongebob__pals_eyeing_move_to_coney_regionalnews_rich_calder.htm\">emerges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>SpongeBob SquarePants could soon frolic along Coney Island&#8217;s boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>Cable-TV giant Nickelodeon has expressed interest in being part of developer Thor Equities&#8217; $2 billion plan to turn the famed summer amusement area&#8217;s rundown strip into a glitzy year-round playground and public attraction, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Nickelodeon&#8217;s parent company, Viacom, is talking with Thor about the possibility of the kids network operating a theme hotel on part of the 3.1-acre Astroland amusement-park property the developer purchased last week.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Thor spokesman Lee Silberstein said companies are interested in Coney Island &#8220;now that there is a serious proposal for the area&#8217;s revival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nickelodeon Senior VP Howard Smith said, &#8220;We think a Nickelodeon-themed family resort hotel would be hugely popular with New Yorkers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One possibility for &#8220;something spectacular&#8221; at Coney Island emerges: SpongeBob SquarePants could soon frolic along Coney Island&#8217;s boardwalk. Cable-TV giant Nickelodeon has expressed interest in being part of developer Thor Equities&#8217; $2 billion plan to turn the famed summer amusement area&#8217;s rundown strip into a glitzy year-round playground and public attraction, sources said. Nickelodeon&#8217;s parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-project_mersh","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}