{"id":2063,"date":"2007-01-30T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/honey_please_drop_the_scaffolding_--_loudly_in_front_of_confused_construction_workers.html"},"modified":"2007-01-30T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T17:32:52","slug":"honey_please_dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/honey_please_dr.html","title":{"rendered":"Honey, Please Drop The Scaffolding — Loudly, In Front Of Confused Construction Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

No doubt coordinated with the Post to burnish his tough-guy image<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Never say Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is afraid to do the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

The gray-maned magazine mogul took matters into his own hands over the weekend when workers raised a racket as they erected a 22-foot scaffold outside his tony home and near an eatery he owns on Bank Street in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Annoyed by the noise, Carter rushed out of his three-story, $5 million townhouse in frigid, 36-degree temps wearing shorts, snatched a 5-foot rail and flung it to the ground in exasperation.<\/p>\n

“Scaffold hurling . . . It’s a venerated Canadian sport, like curling,” the Canadian-born Carter joked to The Post yesterday.<\/p>\n

“Everybody up there does it.”<\/p>\n

Carter then explained, “Fact is, I’ve had construction across the street from me and next door to me for four years. On Saturday morning, a flatbed pulled up and began unloading scaffolding. It blocked the street off and on all day.<\/p>\n

“At 7:30 that night, I was home with my family and the sound — and it was loud — just continued.”<\/p>\n

To make matters even worse, he said, “cars were by now honking.”<\/p>\n

So, he said, “I headed out into the street in my scaffold-hurling gear to see if I could get them to stop.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t get their attention, so I grabbed one of the pieces of scaffolding.<\/p>\n

“Not the most appropriate response in such a situation, but there you have it.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No doubt coordinated with the Post to burnish his tough-guy image: Never say Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is afraid to do the heavy lifting. The gray-maned magazine mogul took matters into his own hands over the weekend when workers raised a racket as they erected a 22-foot scaffold outside his tony home and near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}