{"id":25,"date":"2004-10-26T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/10\/ms_subways_2004.html"},"modified":"2004-10-26T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T22:58:05","slug":"ms_subways_2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/ms_subways_2004.html","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Subways 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ballots have been counted and Ms. Subways 2004 has been crowned. The Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/32751.htm\">picks up the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Caroline Sanchez-Bernat was crowned the first Ms. Subways in nearly 30 years yesterday as part of the transit system&#8217;s centennial celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to be part of a New York tradition,&#8221; said Sanchez-Bernat. &#8220;I think Ms. Subways is a great representation of New York women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez-Bernat, 29, said she entered the contest \u00e2\u20ac\u201d sponsored by The Post and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;on a total whim&#8221; after her friends encouraged her to fill out the entry form this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez-Bernat, who won a year&#8217;s worth of free rides and a subscription to The Post, was given a tiara and sash yesterday during a ceremony at Ellen&#8217;s Stardust Diner, a Manhattan restaurant owned by Ellen Hart Strum, a 1959 Miss Subways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up riding the subways,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I rely on the subways.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/26\/nyregion\/26subway.html?ex=1256443200&#038;en=f53d92a6839cf5c6&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">coverage<\/a> fills in some more details, in particular noting (oh, the irony) that one of the finalists was an hour late to the crowning event because of an unavoidable subway delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ballots have been counted and Ms. Subways 2004 has been crowned. The Post picks up the story: Caroline Sanchez-Bernat was crowned the first Ms. Subways in nearly 30 years yesterday as part of the transit system&#8217;s centennial celebration. &#8220;It&#8217;s great to be part of a New York tradition,&#8221; said Sanchez-Bernat. &#8220;I think Ms. Subways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}