{"id":2045,"date":"2007-01-25T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/modern_americas_emptiest_promise_whatever_you_come_looking_for_its_all_going_to_be_there.html"},"modified":"2007-01-25T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T17:39:04","slug":"modern_americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/modern_americas.html","title":{"rendered":"Modern America&#8217;s Emptiest Promise: &#8220;Whatever You Come Looking For, It&#8217;s All Going To Be There&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News reports that Astroland will soon be transformed into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/491663p-414179c.html\">a glittery hulking mass of commercialism and obsequiousness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The big-bucks developer who bought Coney Island&#8217;s oldest amusement park plans to replace it with a glitzy $250 million playground anchored by a roller coaster that dips under the Boardwalk, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Double the size of Astroland, the multitiered park will include 21 rides, a hotel, a manmade canal for boat rides, a glass-encased atrium and commercial space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to deliver on the promise of what Coney Island is,&#8221; said Chris Durmick, creative director of Thinkwell Design &#038; Production, the California group that is drawing up the 6-acre plan. &#8220;Whatever you come looking for at Coney Island, it&#8217;s all going to be there.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News reports that Astroland will soon be transformed into a glittery hulking mass of commercialism and obsequiousness: The big-bucks developer who bought Coney Island&#8217;s oldest amusement park plans to replace it with a glitzy $250 million playground anchored by a roller coaster that dips under the Boardwalk, the Daily News has learned. Double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}