{"id":3542,"date":"2008-06-16T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T13:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2008-06-16T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T13:34:04","slug":"somebodys_running_for_mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/somebodys_running_for_mayor.html","title":{"rendered":"Somebody&#8217;s Running For Mayor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06162008\/news\/regionalnews\/pol_to_mta__sell_off_hq_to_pay_debt_115724.htm\">a wicked sense of humor to boot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MTA should sell its plush Madison Avenue office building and use the proceeds to offset another fare hike, a city official said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>City Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) said the building, located on Madison Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets, is worth at least $200 million. That money, he said, could fill in a significant portion of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8217;s budget shortfall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little too easy to pass on costs to taxpayers and riders rather than looking at their own operations and cutting the fat,&#8221; Gioia said of the MTA. <\/p>\n<p>The agency is expecting a 2009 deficit of $216 million and faces a $15 million to $20 million hole in its five-year capital-improvement plan.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he has a wicked sense of humor to boot: The MTA should sell its plush Madison Avenue office building and use the proceeds to offset another fare hike, a city official said yesterday. City Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) said the building, located on Madison Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets, is worth at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding","category-sniff_snort_and_chortle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","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=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}