{"id":4975,"date":"2009-06-11T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2009-06-11T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:15:45","slug":"leading_economic_indicators_unorthodox_event_spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/leading_economic_indicators_unorthodox_event_spaces.html","title":{"rendered":"Leading Economic Indicators: Unorthodox Event Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why stop at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/the_next_twenty.html\">Bryant Park<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/when_in_doubt_rent_it_out.html\">West 4th Street Courts<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/i_play_my_part_and_you_play_your_game.html\">Central Park<\/a>? Every city property should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06112009\/news\/regionalnews\/rite_is_wrong_for_son_of_con_173712.htm\">rented out for events large and small<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A wealthy inmate was allowed to host a lavish bar mitzvah behind bars for his son at the downtown lockup known as the Tombs, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n<p>The proud papa, Tuvia Stern, is a financial-scam artist who jumped bail and spent nearly 20 years on the lam. <\/p>\n<p>City Correction Department officials permitted him to use his own caterer, who supplied kosher food, china, forks &#8212; and knives &#8212; for about 60 guests who partied and danced the hora for six hours in the jailhouse gym. <\/p>\n<p>Stern&#8217;s family and friends were allowed to keep their cellphones &#8212; normally a huge security no-no. And Stern was given the OK to dress in clothing appropriate for the occasion. <\/p>\n<p>The guest list at the jail included several prominent rabbis as well as Yaakov Shwekey, a popular Orthodox singer, and a band. <\/p>\n<p>The city threw in its own present &#8212; overtime pay for the correction officers staffing the soiree. <\/p>\n<p>The Dec. 30 bash was so successful that jailbird Stern chose the same venue four months later for his daughter Breindy&#8217;s engagement party for 10 family members, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Shame-faced Correction officials yesterday quietly disciplined five top employees, including a rabbi and an imam, for signing off on the bar mitzvah. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen, in my career, anything as stupid as this,&#8221; said a Department of Correction insider about the bar mitzvah, which was permitted over the objections of at least one jail official. &#8220;It&#8217;s outrageous what transpired.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why stop at Bryant Park, the West 4th Street Courts or Central Park? Every city property should be rented out for events large and small: A wealthy inmate was allowed to host a lavish bar mitzvah behind bars for his son at the downtown lockup known as the Tombs, The Post has learned. The proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","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=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4976,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/4976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}