{"id":2251,"date":"2007-04-05T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/even_calvin_trillin_knows_deep_down_that_cars_just_dont_belong_in_manhattan.html"},"modified":"2007-04-05T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T17:53:11","slug":"even_calvin_tri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/even_calvin_tri.html","title":{"rendered":"Even Calvin Trillin Knows Deep Down That Cars Just Don&#8217;t Belong In Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York International Auto Show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/51914\">attracts a rough crowd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As the New York International Auto Show opens its doors to the public tomorrow, law enforcement officials and car companies will be ramping up security &#8212; and concerns go beyond terrorist threats.<\/p>\n<p>In the past decade, the week-long auto show at the Jacob K, Javits Convention Center has been the site of a stabbing, numerous thefts, such as of gas caps and fuses, and multiple acts of vandalism, including slashed cushions and key-scratched doors, an official at General Motors who works at the convention each year said. The official asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a distinct increase in security levels over the past three years, since an alleged gang member was arrested for inciting a riot in 2004, Sergeant Ken Cano of the New York State Police, the department in charge of policing the state-run convention center, said.<\/p>\n<p>As the press descended on the convention center yesterday, security was light. It isn&#8217;t until Friday, when the show is opened to the public that crimes generally occur, officials said. Mr. Cano said Easter Sunday is an especially popular day for criminal activity.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York International Auto Show attracts a rough crowd: As the New York International Auto Show opens its doors to the public tomorrow, law enforcement officials and car companies will be ramping up security &#8212; and concerns go beyond terrorist threats. In the past decade, the week-long auto show at the Jacob K, Javits [&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-2251","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\/2251","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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}