{"id":3456,"date":"2008-05-20T07:03:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2008-05-20T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:04:26","slug":"think_of_it_like_congestion_pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/think_of_it_like_congestion_pricing.html","title":{"rendered":"Think Of It Like Congestion Pricing . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . congestion pricing for taking crying children into a movie theater<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Clearview Cinemas on First Avenue and 62nd Street last week stopped offering reduced-price tickets for children and seniors, charging $12 across the board — even for a matinee.<\/p>\n

And several other theaters are also expected to raise children’s ticket and concession prices to make up for their cost increases, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

“I feel like everywhere I go, I’m getting nickeled-and-dimed these days,” said Jack Miller, 40, who took his 7-year-old son, Benjamin, to see “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” at the Clearview yesterday afternoon, only to find that a children’s ticket had shot up $2.50.<\/p>\n

“Everything is expensive,” he griped.<\/p>\n

Davina Kahlon, a 31-year-old nurse from Manhattan who saw “Narnia” with her son Jahan, 2, called the price jump “horrible.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it’s fair,” she said. “It’s bad enough we [adults] have to pay $12. Children will be children. He may fall asleep or start to cry, and I might have to leave early. It’s not just.”<\/p>\n

Rita Richardson, 46, said she plans to boycott the theater.<\/p>\n

“They charge more to go to the movies here than in Times Square,” she said. “I won’t be coming here anymore.”<\/p>\n

Making matters worse for the kiddies is the fact that a large tub of popcorn costs 50 cents more at the Clearview than it did last year — up to a whopping $6.50 — a concessionaire said.<\/p>\n

A ticket seller in the box office said the admission-price increase started last week as a pilot program for theaters in the area.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(“Pilot program” . . . what else did they call a “pilot program”? Oh yeah<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . congestion pricing for taking crying children into a movie theater: Clearview Cinemas on First Avenue and 62nd Street last week stopped offering reduced-price tickets for children and seniors, charging $12 across the board — even for a matinee. And several other theaters are also expected to raise children’s ticket and concession prices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}