{"id":2790,"date":"2007-09-24T00:50:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/a_sheet_gets_hotter.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T00:50:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T08:50:22","slug":"a_sheet_gets_ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/a_sheet_gets_ho.html","title":{"rendered":"A Sheet Gets Hotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the foundation set, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/23\/nyregion\/thecity\/23west.html?ex=1348200000&#038;en=0ba0c3ded028f6ac&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">and the hourly rates are next<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There are no heralded restaurants or strobe-lit nightclubs nearby. The area has no tourist attractions. Finding a yellow cab would be akin to spotting a U.F.O.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a hotel is in the final stage of construction in a remote stretch of Hunts Point, wedged between the Sheridan Expressway and the Bronx River. Neighbors of the four-story, butter yellow building, which will have at least 60 rooms, include a body repair shop, a boiler repair outfit and a junkyard.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than hailing the hotel as an economic boon to the gritty industrial area, community leaders wish it would simply go away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who in their right mind is going to come from Oklahoma and stay in a location like that?&#8221; demanded Francisco Gonzalez, the district manager of Community Board 9. &#8220;It&#8217;s a deleterious location.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Central among local concerns, said Albert Alvarez, chief of staff to City Councilman Joel Rivera of the Bronx, is that &#8220;this hotel, opening up in an area that&#8217;s pretty much desolate, is going to be a haven of prostitution and drugs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the foundation set, and the hourly rates are next: There are no heralded restaurants or strobe-lit nightclubs nearby. The area has no tourist attractions. Finding a yellow cab would be akin to spotting a U.F.O. Still, a hotel is in the final stage of construction in a remote stretch of Hunts Point, wedged between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}