{"id":3352,"date":"2008-04-16T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2008-04-16T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T14:11:48","slug":"the_mother_of_all_overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/the_mother_of_all_overtime.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mother Of All Overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m assuming that&#8217;s a typo at the end <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/papalvisit\/pope.benedict.xvi.2.700572.html\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As one might imagine, security is extremely tight in both Washington D.C. and New York City. With Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s much-anticipated landing Tuesday at Maryland&#8217;s Andrews Air Force Base, the NYPD has already begun beefing up its police presence underground. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mind if we check the train?&#8221; That&#8217;s the question NYPD officers will be asking hundreds of train conductors when the pope arrives in NYC on Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the pontiff&#8217;s three-day visit, the NYPD will have round-the-clock coverage of high-profile MTA stops starting as soon as the pope arrives in the city. Officers will take a peek inside every train that comes through the station. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s probably necessary,&#8221; one passenger said. &#8220;The pope is a big worldly figure so he needs that kind of security.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>With hundreds of thousands of people expected to flock to the pope&#8217;s motorcade route through Manhattan on Friday and pack Yankee Stadium for his mass on Sunday, police expect the subway to be extremely busy. The NYPD&#8217;s presence, cops say, is all about letting the public know they are around. Police are hoping commuters will stay vigilante.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m assuming that&#8217;s a typo at the end there: As one might imagine, security is extremely tight in both Washington D.C. and New York City. With Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s much-anticipated landing Tuesday at Maryland&#8217;s Andrews Air Force Base, the NYPD has already begun beefing up its police presence underground. &#8220;Mind if we check the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}