{"id":3286,"date":"2008-03-28T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/time_is_running_out.html"},"modified":"2008-03-28T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:42:16","slug":"time_is_running_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/time_is_running_out.html","title":{"rendered":"Time Is Running Out . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . to burnish your legacy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03282008\/news\/regionalnews\/deperate_city_reconsiders_coney_builder_103857.htm\">somehow, somewhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With time running out on Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s dream of rebuilding Coney Island, the city is now looking to bring a controversial developer back into the plan to build America&#8217;s largest amusement park, sources told The Post. <\/p>\n<p>Only six months ago, when the term-limited mayor announced his grand 47-acre rezoning plan for Coney Island, city officials said developer Joe Sitt and other boardwalk property owners weren&#8217;t qualified to build the new 15-acre park the mayor envisions there. <\/p>\n<p>But with the economy dwindling and deals to buy the 15 acres &#8212; including 11 Sitt controls &#8212; far from being reached, city officials said they are suddenly open to them playing a yet-to-be defined role in the park, even through the goal remains finding a world-class operator to run it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . to burnish your legacy somehow, somewhere: With time running out on Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s dream of rebuilding Coney Island, the city is now looking to bring a controversial developer back into the plan to build America&#8217;s largest amusement park, sources told The Post. Only six months ago, when the term-limited mayor announced his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}