{"id":4953,"date":"2009-06-09T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2009-08-12T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T22:51:38","slug":"more_bloomberg_legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/more_bloomberg_legacy.html","title":{"rendered":"More Bloomberg Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Push through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/the_great_triumphs_of_the_bloomberg_tenure_flower_pots_full_of_cigarette_butts_menus_littered_with_odd_four-digit_numbers_and_lawn_furniture_on_broadway.html\">a crazy new media-ready initiative<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06092009\/news\/regionalnews\/its_slimes_square__173290.htm\">not anticipate what work would need to go into it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The cheapo tables and chairs set up in the pedestrian-only sections of Times Square have become a magnet for nightcrawler slobs who carelessly toss hot-dog wrappers, empty soda bottles and McDonald&#8217;s bags on the street. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially speaking of weekends, like Saturday and Sunday morning, it looks like a bomb hit,&#8221; said Tim Tompkins, the president of Times Square Alliance, the group responsible for keeping the plazas clean. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said they were caught off-guard by the crowds drawn to the newly car-free section of Broadway, and that the trash is one of the growing pains of the setup. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, the Department of Sanitation was called in to do an additional garbage-truck run just to clean out overflowing trash cans, Tompkins said. <\/p>\n<p>The alliance, which gets its funding from business owners to keep the area spruced up, is revamping its cleaning staff&#8217;s hours to fill a late-night gap in service from 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the BID is excited about that . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Push through a crazy new media-ready initiative and not anticipate what work would need to go into it: The cheapo tables and chairs set up in the pedestrian-only sections of Times Square have become a magnet for nightcrawler slobs who carelessly toss hot-dog wrappers, empty soda bottles and McDonald&#8217;s bags on the street. &#8220;Especially speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","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=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}