{"id":2354,"date":"2007-05-25T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/actually_i_think_most_agree_that_a_lowes_home_improvement_center_is_substantively_different_than_a_terrorist_attack.html"},"modified":"2007-05-25T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T18:36:25","slug":"actually_i_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/actually_i_thin.html","title":{"rendered":"Actually, I Think Most Agree That A Lowe&#8217;s Home Improvement Center Is Substantively Different Than A Terrorist Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time was when you wanted to offensively overstate your case all you had were Nazis. Fortunately today we also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courierlife.net\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18386099&#038;BRD=2384&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=560112&#038;rfi=6\">terrorists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With its signature royal blue exterior, Mill Basin&#8217;s Lowe&#8217;s Home Improvement Center might one day look like any of the other hardware stores the company has dotted across the country.<\/p>\n<p>But in the eyes of one state lawmaker, everything is not as it appears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terrorists come in all shapes and sizes,&#8221; State Senator Carl Kruger told Lowe&#8217;s officials last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This plan, in its very simplest form, is a terrorist attack on the Mill Basin community,&#8221; Kruger said at Community Board 18&#8217;s monthly meeting.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, company officials, including Kevin Bulger, Lowe&#8217;s senior site development manager, and Deirdre Carson, its land use attorney for this project, got an earful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what an attack on a community is all about &#8212; I know what a stealth attack is,&#8221; Kruger said. &#8220;When you find a terrorist in your neighborhood . . . you deal with them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time was when you wanted to offensively overstate your case all you had were Nazis. Fortunately today we also have terrorists: With its signature royal blue exterior, Mill Basin&#8217;s Lowe&#8217;s Home Improvement Center might one day look like any of the other hardware stores the company has dotted across the country. But in the eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}