{"id":3512,"date":"2008-06-10T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T13:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2008-06-10T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T13:42:41","slug":"97_degree_weatherhordes_of_tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/97_degree_weatherhordes_of_tourists.html","title":{"rendered":"97 Degree Weather\/Hordes Of Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly it&#8217;s a tossup, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06102008\/news\/regionalnews\/coolest_ramble_round_the_city_114890.htm\">either way, this is good to know<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It took some zigzagging, but I stayed cool all the way from Grand Central Terminal to Central Park. <\/p>\n<p>Starting at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, I took an escalator in the terminal to the MetLife building &#8212; finally venturing onto the street at 47th. <\/p>\n<p>A short, shady walk under some scaffolding brought me to the Tower 49 building at 48th and Madison. I cut through the lobby to 49th Street. <\/p>\n<p>A back entrance to Saks Fifth Avenue was right across the street. I checked out some sunglasses and flip-flops on the way to the 50th Street exit. <\/p>\n<p>I cut through St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral to 51st Street, but then I had to brave the hot sidewalk along Fifth Avenue one block to 52nd. <\/p>\n<p>At 52nd Street, I crossed the street and ducked inside the lobby of 666 Fifth. <\/p>\n<p>Exiting at 53rd Street, I cooled off at St. Thomas Church and emerged outside the staid University Club, where I cut through a vestibule and wound up halfway to 55th Street. <\/p>\n<p>Crossing Fifth and walking partway down 55th, I soon reached Sony Plaza, where I took a quick break on my way to 56th Street. <\/p>\n<p>Another air-conditioned indoor public plaza was waiting on the other side, which I exited at 57th Street. I then crossed Fifth and wound up in Bergdorf Goodman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly it&#8217;s a tossup, but either way, this is good to know: It took some zigzagging, but I stayed cool all the way from Grand Central Terminal to Central Park. Starting at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, I took an escalator in the terminal to the MetLife building &#8212; finally venturing onto the street at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}