{"id":2294,"date":"2007-05-07T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/maybe_if_you_dont_mind_picking_up_some_bubba_gump_merchandise_for_me_on_your_way_to_the_subway.html"},"modified":"2007-05-07T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:25:40","slug":"maybe_if_you_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/maybe_if_you_do.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe If You Don&#8217;t Mind Picking Up Some Bubba Gump Merchandise For Me On Your Way To The Subway . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you felt like being cruel by sending someone on an errand in Manhattan, we suggest doing it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/06\/nyregion\/thecity\/06fyi.html\">on what might be the single most crowded hour of the year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance business improvement district, has a convincing answer. He puts the most crowded time at 5 to 6 p.m. on the Wednesday after Christmas, which will be Dec. 26 this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have, on the one hand, all the tourists who are here,&#8221; he said in an e-mail message. &#8220;Then you have people who have left the matinee and people who are coming to evening shows and eating dinner before or after the shows.&#8221; Add the commuters who are still pouring out of offices, along with people returning gifts or using their gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Times Square attracts onlookers curious to see where the New Year&#8217;s Eve ball will be dropped &#8212; if not the heartiest of revelers intent on camping out there for five days.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you felt like being cruel by sending someone on an errand in Manhattan, we suggest doing it on what might be the single most crowded hour of the year: Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance business improvement district, has a convincing answer. He puts the most crowded time at 5 to 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,44,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan","category-need_to_know","category-survey_saysla_encuesta_dice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}