{"id":382,"date":"2005-09-13T10:12:43","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_big_city_still_has_it.html"},"modified":"2005-09-13T10:12:43","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T18:12:43","slug":"the_big_city_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_big_city_st.html","title":{"rendered":"The Big City Still Has It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is stranger? That a lost tourist can roam the Upper East Side for two days or that 70 is considered elderly? The Daily News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/345891p-295237c.html\">reports<\/a>, you decide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An elderly Japanese tourist was reunited with her daughter yesterday after getting lost on Fifth Ave. and spending two days wandering the upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p>Takako Maeda, 70, who speaks no English, was without food, money or any recollection of the name or address of the hotel where she&#8217;s staying &#8211; the upscale Pierre at Fifth Ave. and 61st St.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She drank water from a bottle left on the street next to a pay phone,&#8221; said Satoru Kuwajima, a Japanese man who found her yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She walked by a police station, but didn&#8217;t think they would understand her &#8211; so she kept on walking,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maeda was separated from her daughter on Saturday about 3:30 p.m. as they walked into St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Motoko Maeda, 37, the daughter, told cops that she lost sight of her mother in a sudden rush of people and after a long day of sightseeing.<\/p>\n<p>Police used bloodhounds in an attempt to trace the woman and found a surveillance tape that showed her walking past the entrance to the Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, she walked into the lobby of Kuwajima&#8217;s building on E. 63rd St. and was relieved to encounter someone who spoke Japanese.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is stranger? That a lost tourist can roam the Upper East Side for two days or that 70 is considered elderly? The Daily News reports, you decide: An elderly Japanese tourist was reunited with her daughter yesterday after getting lost on Fifth Ave. and spending two days wandering the upper East Side. Takako Maeda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channeling_jd_salinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}