{"id":2269,"date":"2007-04-27T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/pier_40_critics_raise_concern_about_cancerous_cirque.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T18:12:59","slug":"pier_40_critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/pier_40_critics.html","title":{"rendered":"Pier 40 Critics Raise Concern About Cancerous Cirque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bold proposal to develop Pier 40 on Manhattan&#8217;s West Side &#8212; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/so_many_playgro.html\">plans for a dedicated Cirque du Soliel theater<\/a> &#8212; has been derided by critics as &#8220;Vegas on the Hudson,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/53312\">a cancerous, infectious Vegas on the Hudson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Because the designs were first released late last year, community opposition has been tough and unified, with critics decrying the idea of a tourist hot-spot that would take the place of community recreation space and spread uncharacteristic development to the adjacent neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly this is a regional tourist destination that would have little connection to the neighborhood and would solely be an attraction to tourists,&#8221; the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Andrew Berman, said of Related&#8217;s proposal. &#8220;If you have Vegas on the Hudson next door, the tendency will be to look to develop similar uses in the inland area &#8212; and that would be totally unacceptable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bold proposal to develop Pier 40 on Manhattan&#8217;s West Side &#8212; with plans for a dedicated Cirque du Soliel theater &#8212; has been derided by critics as &#8220;Vegas on the Hudson,&#8221; a cancerous, infectious Vegas on the Hudson: Because the designs were first released late last year, community opposition has been tough and unified, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","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=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}