{"id":3195,"date":"2008-03-04T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/not_in_the_middle_of_my_upper_east_side_block.html"},"modified":"2008-03-04T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T15:24:55","slug":"not_in_the_middle_of_my_upper_east_side_block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/not_in_the_middle_of_my_upper_east_side_block.html","title":{"rendered":"Not In The Middle Of My Upper East Side Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t the point of building a subway to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03042008\/news\/regionalnews\/2nd_ave__2nd_thoughts_100314.htm\">&#8220;change the lifestyle&#8221;<\/a>? No, never mind the people who live past First Avenue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MTA will re-evaluate a planned entrance to the Second Avenue subway slated for East 72nd Street in the wake of two lawsuits filed by area residents, their lawyer said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>In suits filed last month, four co-ops are seeking to have the entrance, now set to be built between First and Second avenues, moved to a corner or scaled down. <\/p>\n<p>The residents also want the MTA to redo an environmental review. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before we make any final determination to proceed with an entrance . . . we will complete the additional evaluations,&#8221; agency lawyer Anthony Semancik told a community meeting last night. <\/p>\n<p>The project would &#8220;change the lifestyle of the people who live there,&#8221; said Susan Chandler, who lives in one of the buildings affected.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t the point of building a subway to &#8220;change the lifestyle&#8221;? No, never mind the people who live past First Avenue: The MTA will re-evaluate a planned entrance to the Second Avenue subway slated for East 72nd Street in the wake of two lawsuits filed by area residents, their lawyer said yesterday. In suits filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","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=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}