{"id":4864,"date":"2009-05-19T07:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2009-05-19T07:56:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T12:56:02","slug":"pile_on_the_80_dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/pile_on_the_80_dirt.html","title":{"rendered":"Pile On . . . The $80 Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2009\/05\/19\/2009-05-19_groups_study_blasts_city_for_park_construction_lags.html\">it takes years to build something when you&#8217;re excavating dirt by the teaspoonful<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>While the Yankees scoop teaspoonfuls of dirt from their old stadium to sell for upwards of $80 each, the community that lost its parks to the new stadium are still waiting for a ballfield of their own. <\/p>\n<p>With the demolition of the House that Ruth Built expected to take nearly a year and a half, it will be late 2010 before work can even begin on Heritage Field, the park to replace most of the ballfields swallowed up three years ago to make way for the $1.5 billion new Yankee Stadium.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/oldyankeestadium\/index.htm\">Old Yankee Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it takes years to build something when you&#8217;re excavating dirt by the teaspoonful: While the Yankees scoop teaspoonfuls of dirt from their old stadium to sell for upwards of $80 each, the community that lost its parks to the new stadium are still waiting for a ballfield of their own. With the demolition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864","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=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4865,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}