{"id":278,"date":"2005-06-27T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T17:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/06\/the_relentless_march_of_progress.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:31:56","slug":"the_relentless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/the_relentless.html","title":{"rendered":"The Relentless March of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The single-screen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/322807p-275967c.html\">Beekman Theatre on the Upper East Side is being bulldozed to make way for progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Immortalized in &#8220;Annie Hall,&#8221; Woody Allen&#8217;s 1977 romantic comedy, the 53-year-old upper East Side movie house &#8211; one of the last single-screen theaters in the city &#8211; closed for good last night.<\/p>\n<p>A throwback to the premultiplex era of neighborhood cinemas, the Beekman, on Second Ave. and 66th St., is being cleared to make way for a breast cancer treatment center.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an assault on the character of what makes New York wonderful,&#8221; said George Reisz, 56, a nearby resident. &#8220;Some day, there&#8217;ll be nothing left.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Starbucks, McDonald&#8217;s, Home Depot, breast cancer treatment centers . . . where will it end? Sloan-Kettering must be stopped!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single-screen Beekman Theatre on the Upper East Side is being bulldozed to make way for progress: Immortalized in &#8220;Annie Hall,&#8221; Woody Allen&#8217;s 1977 romantic comedy, the 53-year-old upper East Side movie house &#8211; one of the last single-screen theaters in the city &#8211; closed for good last night. A throwback to the premultiplex era [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}