{"id":2370,"date":"2007-06-01T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/bring_on_the_bad_old_days.html"},"modified":"2007-06-01T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:52:19","slug":"bring_on_the_ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/bring_on_the_ba.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring On The Bad Old Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You want the bad old days<\/a>? We’ll give you the bad old days<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On the same weekend the city Parks Department heralded the opening of beaches, and the South Beach boardwalk went upscale with a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop, an Eltingville woman endured a nightmarish flashback to Gotham’s darker days of waste-littered beaches, when she was stuck by a hypodermic needle while sunbathing on the sand.<\/p>\n

Filomena Rago rolled over on the sheet she had spread out on Midland Beach late Sunday afternoon, getting ready to leave because a chill had set into the air.<\/p>\n

Before she could reach for a cover-up to slip over her gold bikini, she felt a sharp jab at the back of her left thigh.<\/p>\n

“I picked up the sheet and looked down to see what it was; it was a needle with some of the plastic and you could tell it was syringe,” said the 27-year-old legal secretary. “When I saw it I cried.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“If it happened to me, of course I’d be worried,” mused Anthony D’Angelo, yesterday afternoon at Midland Beach, as his toddler played in the sand. “But I’m going to keep coming; I think it’s a rare event.”<\/p>\n

Nearby, 5-year-old James was digging in sand littered with cigarette butts, washed-up plastic bottles and Styrofoam cups.<\/p>\n

“He knows to watch out for needles,” said his grandfather, Luis Romero, motioning toward a spot where he said he recently spotted syringes in the sand. “I know they clean but you’re not going to get everything unless you pick it up by hand.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You want the bad old days? We’ll give you the bad old days: On the same weekend the city Parks Department heralded the opening of beaches, and the South Beach boardwalk went upscale with a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop, an Eltingville woman endured a nightmarish flashback to Gotham’s darker days of waste-littered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","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=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}