{"id":3597,"date":"2008-07-14T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2008-07-14T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:17:26","slug":"the_city_of_dirty_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/the_city_of_dirty_socks.html","title":{"rendered":"The City Of Dirty Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recession widens, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2008\/07\/13\/2008-07-13_laundromat_prices_bubbling_over_in_city.html\">detergent makers hardest hit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Higher fuel and water prices mean the cost of a load of wash is spinning out of control for the city&#8217;s cash-strapped residents. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try to wash a lot of the clothing in the sink at home,&#8221; said Bianca Vaugean, 14, a Harlem ninth-grader who does all the laundry for her family of seven. <\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s dishes had to share sink space after the price on the large washing machines at the 134th St. laundromat jumped from $3.25 to $5.25, she said. <\/p>\n<p>City residents also report skipping washes and cramming the machines to get the most bang for their buck. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the price on the large dryer go up two dollars last week and I was shocked,&#8221; said Mary Ann Hart, 33, at a Bay Ridge laundromat at 79th St. and Third Ave. &#8220;I am going to have to stretch our usage from every week to every other week.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Laundromats are taking a beating because of rising utility costs, said a trade expert. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There isn&#8217;t another small business that has been hit as hard as the Laundromat,&#8221; said Brian Wallace, president of the Coin Laundry Association. &#8220;Costs are trickling down to the people in the poorer neighborhoods who can least afford it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>During the last month, rates have been steadily bubbling up citywide &#8212; jumping as much as 40%.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recession widens, detergent makers hardest hit: Higher fuel and water prices mean the cost of a load of wash is spinning out of control for the city&#8217;s cash-strapped residents. &#8220;We try to wash a lot of the clothing in the sink at home,&#8221; said Bianca Vaugean, 14, a Harlem ninth-grader who does all the laundry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","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=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}