{"id":429,"date":"2005-10-17T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/coins_in_the_fountain.html"},"modified":"2005-10-17T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:20:31","slug":"coins_in_the_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/coins_in_the_fo.html","title":{"rendered":"Coins In The Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/356431p-303820c.html\">profiles the guy whose job it is to fish coins out of city fountains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Here&#8217;s what happens to all those coins that get tossed into city fountains by wish-makers: If the homeless don&#8217;t get to them first, they go into city coffers &#8211; courtesy of Joe McBain.<br \/>\nMcBain, 53, is an unsung hero of New York whose job is making sure city park fountains in Manhattan are kept clean of debris.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to coins, he&#8217;s found everything from MetroCards to cell phones to watches during his watery rounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s New York City,&#8221; McBain said with a wide smile. &#8220;Anything goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The homeless, he said, usually snatch up quarters, dimes and nickels under the cover of darkness, when the fountains are off for the night.<\/p>\n<p>By day, McBain fishes out all the pennies &#8211; as well as leaves, discarded food and other trash.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on how much money is generated this way but if Mr. McBain sees it, he&#8217;ll fish it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sometimes, when wish-makers see McBain pulling their coins out, they fear their dreams won&#8217;t come true.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s quick to assuage their worries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tell them it&#8217;s like a prayer,&#8221; McBain said. &#8220;Once the money hits the water, their wish is answered.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once the money hits the water, the wish is answered . . . sure, sure . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News profiles the guy whose job it is to fish coins out of city fountains: Here&#8217;s what happens to all those coins that get tossed into city fountains by wish-makers: If the homeless don&#8217;t get to them first, they go into city coffers &#8211; courtesy of Joe McBain. McBain, 53, is an unsung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_geek_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}