{"id":4210,"date":"2008-12-30T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2008-12-30T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:03:36","slug":"a_curmudgeons_dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/a_curmudgeons_dream.html","title":{"rendered":"A Curmudgeon&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It got a lot less crowded at Scores* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/if_you_assumed_these_guys_were_just_assholes_at_craptastic_midtown_clubs.html\">now that the Wall Street yabbos are gone<\/a> and it will become a lot easier to walk around in Midtown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/12\/29\/2008-12-29_city_tourism_falloff_coming.html\">when tourism declines in 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Those flocks of tourists clogging Manhattan streets were thicker than ever this year, but the sinking economy will mean fewer visitors in 2009, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The city estimates a record 47 million people visited New York this year and spent a record $30 billion, Mayor Bloomberg said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do predict that there&#8217;ll be a single-digit decline, and no more than that, for certain,&#8221; said George Fertitta, head of NYC &#038; Company.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Whoops . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/in_a_uh_stroke_18_years_of_new_york_magazine_references_to_yobbery_rendered_unintelligible_to_future_generations.html\">be careful what you wish for<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It got a lot less crowded at Scores* now that the Wall Street yabbos are gone and it will become a lot easier to walk around in Midtown when tourism declines in 2009: Those flocks of tourists clogging Manhattan streets were thicker than ever this year, but the sinking economy will mean fewer visitors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}