{"id":351,"date":"2005-08-26T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/08\/beep_to_fmcp_drop_dead.html"},"modified":"2005-08-26T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T18:47:48","slug":"beep_to_fmcp_dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/beep_to_fmcp_dr.html","title":{"rendered":"Beep to FMCP: Drop Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parkland be damned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/340721p-290907c.html\">Queens Borough President Helen Marshall is practically tripping over herself to lure the Jets to Queens<\/a>. That&#8217;s the football Jets, not the thousands of airplanes that take off from and land at the borough&#8217;s two major airports.<\/p>\n<p>But we digress. Let it be said that quotes like this tend to bite one in the ass. Like, ouch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Queens Borough President Helen Marshall wants the Jets to come to Queens and she doesn&#8217;t mind sacking one of her own parks to make the point.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bloomberg said giving up city parkland to build a stadium would be a tough decision; Marshall said no one would miss the swath of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went to the site,&#8221; said Marshall, who represented the area around the park during her years in the City Council and the state Assembly. &#8220;This is the Fountains of the something or other. It is really now just a big, big pool of stagnant water, with garbage thrown in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marshall was talking about the Fountain of the Planets, a once-grand, 6-acre water display built for the 1964-65 world&#8217;s fair.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God, what a bitch! Leave that poor park alone already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkland be damned, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall is practically tripping over herself to lure the Jets to Queens. That&#8217;s the football Jets, not the thousands of airplanes that take off from and land at the borough&#8217;s two major airports. But we digress. Let it be said that quotes like this tend to bite one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}