{"id":2250,"date":"2007-04-05T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/those_things_eventually_expire_you_know.html"},"modified":"2007-04-05T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T17:44:04","slug":"those_things_ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/those_things_ev.html","title":{"rendered":"Those Things Eventually Expire You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers&#8217; wallets are bulging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/51865\">but it&#8217;s not a sign of a more robust economy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city distributed 5 million free condoms in the month after it unveiled a new subway-themed wrapper earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>That was triple the number of condoms the city gave away in the month before the Valentine&#8217;s Day launch of the brightly colored package.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NYC Condom is a sensation,&#8221; the city&#8217;s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 800 establishments, including bars, theaters, and restaurants requested the free condoms between February 14 and March 14.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look for the Department to partner with the Parks Department to determine how many of these have actually been used.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the New York Post&#8217;s Carl Campanile must be publicly rebuked for composing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04052007\/news\/regionalnews\/rush_hour_for_subway_condoms_regionalnews_carl_campanile.htm\">this lede<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city&#8217;s free subway-themed condoms have rubbed New Yorkers the right way &#8212; a staggering 5 million have been handed out since Valentine&#8217;s Day, the Health Department said yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/next_up_the_new.html\">Next Up, The Newark Condom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/centralpark\/ramble\/index.htm\">The Ramble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers&#8217; wallets are bulging but it&#8217;s not a sign of a more robust economy: The city distributed 5 million free condoms in the month after it unveiled a new subway-themed wrapper earlier this year. That was triple the number of condoms the city gave away in the month before the Valentine&#8217;s Day launch of [&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-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","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=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}