{"id":3209,"date":"2008-03-07T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/advantage_queens.html"},"modified":"2008-03-07T10:44:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:44:46","slug":"advantage_queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/advantage_queens.html","title":{"rendered":"Advantage: Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/31\/10\/31_10_sitting_at_the_bar.html\">Brooklyn gets greyer<\/a> (&#8220;The war between childless bar-goers and the so-called stroller Mafia has ended at one restaurant: the eatery is offering on-site babysitters to watch children in a separate room while their parents &#8212; and everyone else &#8212; dine and drink in peace&#8221;), while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2008\/03\/07\/2008-03-07_astoria_eatery_is_serving_up_laughs-2.html\">Queens gets funnier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Astoria Comedy Club is set to open Friday at Mezzo Mezzo restaurant on Ditmars Blvd. &#8212; the only venue in the borough for regular comic relief. <\/p>\n<p>The 75-seat club, located in a performance space on the second floor of the eatery, will be open four days a week for now and feature comedians from across the country. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 10 years ago, all the comics moved to Astoria because it&#8217;s cheap,&#8221; said Matt Taylor, the club&#8217;s host. &#8220;There&#8217;s more talent here per square foot than anywhere, period.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn gets greyer (&#8220;The war between childless bar-goers and the so-called stroller Mafia has ended at one restaurant: the eatery is offering on-site babysitters to watch children in a separate room while their parents &#8212; and everyone else &#8212; dine and drink in peace&#8221;), while Queens gets funnier: The Astoria Comedy Club is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,46,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-quality_of_life","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}