{"id":501,"date":"2005-11-29T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/at_least_its_good_for_something.html"},"modified":"2005-11-29T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T17:41:02","slug":"at_least_its_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/at_least_its_go.html","title":{"rendered":"At Least It&#8217;s Good For Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/jane_jacobs_be.html\">misplaced concern that its mall-like atmosphere would not catch on in Manhattan<\/a>, <em>New York Magazine<\/em> reports that the new Time Warner Center is establishing itself as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nymetro.com\/nymetro\/news\/people\/columns\/intelligencer\/15207\/index.html\">a convenient cruising spot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It seems gay men might be picking up more than just Cole Haan loafers at the Time Warner Center\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially in the third-floor restroom. Ryan Haase, who works nearby, recently detected an &#8220;air of ill repute&#8221; when he saw several men at the urinals. &#8220;They all turned and looked at me almost in unison,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I went to wash my hands. No one had moved.&#8221; A shopboy says rumors of the rendezvous spot have circulated for about a year &#8212; colleagues reported &#8220;uncomfortable sounds coming from the stalls&#8221; &#8212; and a blogger called spriteboy pinpointed it as &#8220;a cruising spot,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Ohhh nobody even needs to know the scandal my eyes witnessed today.&#8221; A former restaurant employee says, &#8220;It was a known thing. The security guard would tell me stories about it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid misplaced concern that its mall-like atmosphere would not catch on in Manhattan, New York Magazine reports that the new Time Warner Center is establishing itself as a convenient cruising spot: It seems gay men might be picking up more than just Cole Haan loafers at the Time Warner Center\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially in the third-floor restroom. Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}