{"id":291,"date":"2005-07-06T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_office_of_city_shusher.html"},"modified":"2005-07-06T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T23:31:00","slug":"the_office_of_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_office_of_c.html","title":{"rendered":"The Office of City “Shusher”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker’s Ben McGrath sheds some light on the mysterious office of Public Advocate by profiling some of the nine candidates running for office<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It’s a misunderstood, maligned office that actually has huge potential, because there are already tens of thousands of public advocates,” Andrew Rasiej, a first-time candidate, said the other day, explaining his aim to “connect” New York’s countless well-intentioned citizens — busybodies, to some. The city teems with them: the old woman in your apartment building who’s always slipping notices under your door; the movie-theatre “shusher”; the guy in the drugstore who makes sure the other shoppers know that there’s only one line; Bernie Goetz. Actually, Goetz, the infamous subway gunman turned vegetarian crusader, is running for advocate himself — he’s the one who wants to institute the pay cut. Goetz’s platform includes some truly inspired ideas (he’s for midday power naps), some strangely banal ones (he’d like to see a “tall building” constructed somewhere “around Sixtieth Street”), and some that remind you why he can’t possibly win (he believes that “N.Y.C. should relax more on security”).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having always wondered exactly what the Public Advocate did, I’m pleased to see that it’s basically exactly what I expected: Office of City “Shusher”.<\/p>\n

Bonus Points: Bernie Goetz for Public Advocate Official Site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker’s Ben McGrath sheds some light on the mysterious office of Public Advocate by profiling some of the nine candidates running for office: “It’s a misunderstood, maligned office that actually has huge potential, because there are already tens of thousands of public advocates,” Andrew Rasiej, a first-time candidate, said the other day, explaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}