{"id":2970,"date":"2007-12-07T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/central_park_as_giant_cash_machine.html"},"modified":"2007-12-07T06:56:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:56:03","slug":"central_park_as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/central_park_as.html","title":{"rendered":"Central Park As Giant Cash Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While vast swaths of public parkland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/06\/nyregion\/06parks.html\">go ignored<\/a>, quasi-public park conservancies raise funds with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12072007\/news\/regionalnews\/central_pk___and_ride____for_500_hr__243419.htm\">overwhelming force<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Finding a unique gift for your honey can be a walk in the park &#8212; if you&#8217;ve got enough green.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Park Conservancy is launching private, customized tours of the park, to be conducted by Sara Cedar Miller, its official historian and photographer, for a flat $500-per-hour fee for up to seven people.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, the author of &#8220;Central Park, An American Masterpiece,&#8221; will drive the minivan that will take your party on a design-your-own walk and\/or ride.<\/p>\n<p>The conservancy offers free guided walking tours, but this one, it says, will be tailored to your interests, be they in landscape design, history, architecture &#8212; or little-known secrets.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While vast swaths of public parkland go ignored, quasi-public park conservancies raise funds with overwhelming force: Finding a unique gift for your honey can be a walk in the park &#8212; if you&#8217;ve got enough green. The Central Park Conservancy is launching private, customized tours of the park, to be conducted by Sara Cedar Miller, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}