{"id":3598,"date":"2008-07-14T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2008-07-14T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:19:55","slug":"good_art_provokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/good_art_provokes.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Art Provokes . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . better art nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2008\/07\/11\/2008-07-11_kayakers_close_encounter_with_nyc_waterf.html\">drowns and kills<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A pair of kayakers who paddled too close to the New York City Waterfalls installation under the Brooklyn Bridge nearly drowned when swift currents and the falls&#8217; suction mechanism capsized their boat, police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to get a closer look at the waterfalls, and then it sucked us in,&#8221; said Vladimer Spector, 37, one of the two men plucked from the East River by the NYPD Harbor Patrol. <\/p>\n<p>He and Bert Rosenblatt, 36, were part of a group of real estate developers who left Red Hook for a tour of the falls with the nonprofit Long Island City Community Boathouse. <\/p>\n<p>As they approached the waterfall, they started to lose control of their boat, police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were too enthralled with the waterfalls,&#8221; said John McGarvey, one of the outing&#8217;s coordinators. <\/p>\n<p>By the time the pair realized the power of the water, it was too late. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lost my shoes because the current was so strong,&#8221; said Rosenblatt, who lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and owns Vicus Partners on Madison Ave. &#8220;My life didn&#8217;t flash before my eyes or anything like that, but I was definitely scared.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The falls were turned off for 15 minutes during the rescue.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . better art nearly drowns and kills: A pair of kayakers who paddled too close to the New York City Waterfalls installation under the Brooklyn Bridge nearly drowned when swift currents and the falls&#8217; suction mechanism capsized their boat, police said. &#8220;I wanted to get a closer look at the waterfalls, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts_entertainment","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","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=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}