{"id":3995,"date":"2008-11-21T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2008-11-21T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:20:14","slug":"aha_thats_what_borough_presidents_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/aha_thats_what_borough_presidents_do.html","title":{"rendered":"Aha, That&#8217;s What Borough Presidents Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2008\/11\/20\/2008-11-20_queens_borough_president_helen_marshall_.html\">Advocate for the destruction of bits and pieces of the city&#8217;s architectural history<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Queens Borough President Helen Marshall urged destruction of the New York State Pavilion during an interview this week with the Daily News, pre-empting a city study on whether the structure can be saved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should be demolished,&#8221; Marshall said of the pavilion, designed by famed architect Philip Johnson. &#8220;We have great artists. He&#8217;s not the only artist in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though the 1964 World&#8217;s Fair exhibit has decayed much over the decades, the unique rotunda with three towers remains integral to the city&#8217;s proposed transformation of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/newyorkstate\/index.htm\">New York State Pavilion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocate for the destruction of bits and pieces of the city&#8217;s architectural history: Queens Borough President Helen Marshall urged destruction of the New York State Pavilion during an interview this week with the Daily News, pre-empting a city study on whether the structure can be saved. &#8220;It should be demolished,&#8221; Marshall said of the pavilion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-jerk_move","category-queens","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","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=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}