{"id":42,"date":"2004-11-22T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/the_inexorable_slide_into_the_abyss_of_elitism.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:25:26","slug":"the_inexorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/the_inexorable.html","title":{"rendered":"The Inexorable Slide into the Abyss of Elitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/34761.htm\">these people are already there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Say it ain&#8217;t SoHo.<\/p>\n<p>A branch of the Sheraton hotel chain is coming to the trendy area South of Houston Street, and some of its residents aren&#8217;t happy.<\/p>\n<p>The company has just broken ground at 66 Charlton St. to build the 20-story, 150-room, moderately priced Four Points by Sheraton SoHo Village, slated to open in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s next, a Motel 6?&#8221; asked Jeremiah Immer, who&#8217;s lived in the once-gritty artist colony for 18 years. &#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t be too much longer until SoHo gets a mall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Restaurateur Keith McNally, whose celeb-studded Balthazar eatery helped usher in the &#8220;SoHo Chic&#8221; era in 1997, calls any chain opening below Houston Street &#8220;a depressing example of the suburbanization of downtown Manhattan.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, these people are already there: Say it ain&#8217;t SoHo. A branch of the Sheraton hotel chain is coming to the trendy area South of Houston Street, and some of its residents aren&#8217;t happy. The company has just broken ground at 66 Charlton St. to build the 20-story, 150-room, moderately priced Four Points by Sheraton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}