{"id":4395,"date":"2009-02-02T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2009-02-02T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:51:02","slug":"there_are_glass_domes_and_there_are_glass_domes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/there_are_glass_domes_and_there_are_glass_domes.html","title":{"rendered":"There Are Glass Domes And There Are Glass Domes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Helen Marshall. If there is a difference between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/so_now_whenever_we_switch_from_the_r_to_the_a_downtown_well_fondly_remember_the_900_billion_economic_stimulus_package_of_2009.html\">a $500 million glass dome<\/a> and a $20 million glass dome, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01312009\/news\/regionalnews\/qns__beep_builds_20m_glass_roof_amid_tor_152887.htm\">the Post can&#8217;t discern it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With the mayor announcing a doomsday budget scenario, you&#8217;d think the whole city would come together to make every single penny count.<\/p>\n<p>Not Borough President Helen Marshall, who pushed ahead yesterday with a questionable $20 million glass atrium at the rear of Queens Borough Hall.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day Mayor Bloomberg said the city might cut 23,000 jobs and many city services, a request for competitive bids on the extension project was made public.<\/p>\n<p>The plan calls for a high-ceilinged enclosure to be constructed in the nearly 70-year-old building&#8217;s rear courtyard. The area would be used for public meetings, cultural events and performances. It will be paid for with taxpayer money budgeted to Marshall&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a $20 million project funded from the borough president&#8217;s discretionary capital fund. It is to provide much-needed space for meetings and community programs,&#8221; said Marshall&#8217;s spokesman, Dan Andrews.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Helen Marshall. If there is a difference between a $500 million glass dome and a $20 million glass dome, the Post can&#8217;t discern it: With the mayor announcing a doomsday budget scenario, you&#8217;d think the whole city would come together to make every single penny count. Not Borough President Helen Marshall, who pushed ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-new_york_post","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","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=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}