{"id":1861,"date":"2006-12-06T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/bienvenue_a_la_porte_authorite.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:57:27","slug":"bienvenue_a_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/bienvenue_a_la.html","title":{"rendered":"Bienvenue A La Porte Authorit\u00c3\u00a9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port Authority continues its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/44662\">frankly daunting rebranding campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A white tablecloth brasserie, Metro March\u00c3\u00a9, officially opened its French doors yesterday across the hallway from the Peter Pan ticket counter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal &#8212; a place where until yesterday the only French fare could be found at the Au Bon Pain.<\/p>\n<p>Once occupied by the Silver Bullet Saloon, the Metro March\u00c3\u00a9 space above the A, C, and E subway station stood vacant for several years. Now it is being filled with the bus terminal&#8217;s first fine-dining facility, an early step in a long-term plan to revamp the dingy station into something more modern and elegant.<\/p>\n<p>The terminal, known for its badly lit corridors and low ceilings, is often associated with gloomy scenes of urban life, a memory of the days, not so long ago, when its walls were covered in graffiti and loiterers were a common sight in front of bus gates.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the deputy executive director of the Port Authority, James Fox, spoke of a station &#8220;renaissance,&#8221; and pointed to Grand Central Terminal as an example of what the bus terminal aspires to become.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is paying $90 a square foot to rent the 5,000-square-foot space from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port Authority continues its frankly daunting rebranding campaign: A white tablecloth brasserie, Metro March\u00c3\u00a9, officially opened its French doors yesterday across the hallway from the Peter Pan ticket counter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal &#8212; a place where until yesterday the only French fare could be found at the Au Bon Pain. Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","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=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4184,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}