{"id":3529,"date":"2008-06-14T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2008-06-14T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T12:37:50","slug":"new_yorkers_theyre_just_like_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/new_yorkers_theyre_just_like_us.html","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers: They&#8217;re Just Like Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even people in hip, post-cool Brooklyn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/06\/13\/2008-06-13_folks_eager_to_camp_in_red_hook_to_win_f-2.html\">line up days in advance for IKEA openings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The doors to Brooklyn&#8217;s new Ikea have yet to open, but the madness has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers in Red Hook were plotting ways to get their hands on a bargain Friday after hearing thousands of dollars of free furniture would be up for grabs Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll camp two days for a couch,&#8221; said student Kashmere Square, 20, when he found out the first 35 customers would receive a $699 sofa, and the next 100 will be rewarded with a $199 armchair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s cool. I&#8217;ll definitely be shopping there. I need a computer stand, a table and chairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Malgonada, 17, quickly called friends to work out how they would take turns to secure a spot at the front of the line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a free sofa from Ikea? [I&#8217;ll] definitely [line up],&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have to be 21, I&#8217;ll bring somebody older. We&#8217;ll do shifts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ikea&#8217;s doors officially swing open at 9 a.m. Wednesday, and giveaways will be handed out throughout the day at the 346,000-square-foot store on Beard St.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Annotation: <a href=\"http:\/\/gridskipper.com\/52291\/ikea-riot\">&#8220;Ikea Riot&#8221;<\/a> (Gridskipper, February 10, 2005); <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/3618190.stm\">&#8220;Three die in Saudi shop stampede&#8221;<\/a> (BBC, September 1, 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even people in hip, post-cool Brooklyn line up days in advance for IKEA openings: The doors to Brooklyn&#8217;s new Ikea have yet to open, but the madness has begun. Shoppers in Red Hook were plotting ways to get their hands on a bargain Friday after hearing thousands of dollars of free furniture would be up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-culturalanthropological","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","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=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}