{"id":4468,"date":"2009-02-10T09:32:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2009-02-10T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T14:44:16","slug":"the_great_river_to_river_festival_bailout_of_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/the_great_river_to_river_festival_bailout_of_2009.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great River To River Festival Bailout Of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/09\/bring-on-the-stimulus-groups-say\/\">save teachers&#8217; jobs<\/a>, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/real-estate\/city-hall-sees-1-b-nyc-infrastructure-stimulus\">fix roofs in housing projects<\/a> and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/10\/obama-champions-efficiency-in-stimulus\/\">weatherize homes<\/a>. Oh, and you can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02102009\/news\/regionalnews\/battery_park_fort_tune_154411.htm\">build a better live music venue next time Okkervil River comes to town<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A section of the House version of the bill provides $1.7 billion to address &#8220;critical deferred maintenance needs&#8221; within the nation&#8217;s park system. <\/p>\n<p>The bill doesn&#8217;t specifically mention the big-bucks rehab, but Castle Clinton is on a list of &#8220;top priority&#8221; projects the feds want to fund, according to a House Appropriations Committee aide who reviewed an agency list. <\/p>\n<p>The aide put the price tag at $5.6 million to begin the renovation of the fort as an outdoor music venue, based on information the administration provided.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/battery\/index.htm\">The Battery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can save teachers&#8217; jobs, you can fix roofs in housing projects and you can weatherize homes. Oh, and you can also build a better live music venue next time Okkervil River comes to town: A section of the House version of the bill provides $1.7 billion to address &#8220;critical deferred maintenance needs&#8221; within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,70,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-bah_humbug","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","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=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}