{"id":5014,"date":"2009-06-19T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2009-06-19T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:15:08","slug":"greenmarkets_are_great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/greenmarkets_are_great.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenmarkets Are Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/06\/19\/2009-06-19_get_fresh_at_bus_terminal_port_authority_classes_up_joint_with_farmers_market.html\">then you remember where you are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Organizers say the Greenmarket, held every Thursday, will further chip away at the terminal&#8217;s dingy, dirty reputation from yesteryear. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This market is the next chapter in the terminal&#8217;s evolution,&#8221; said Susan Bass Levin, deputy director of the Port Authority, acknowledging it was once &#8220;a place you would hesitate to go.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>While signs posted on brick pillars still warn that &#8220;no person shall spit, urinate or defecate&#8221; on terminal property, some of the 210,000 people who pass through every day were delighted to see produce from upstate farms in midtown. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally wouldn&#8217;t eat there,&#8221; said Ronald Goodie, 63, of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. &#8220;With all the dirt coming in and out of this place, no way, not for me. Why would they pick this place of all places to do that?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Al Jean-Babziste, 38, also of Brooklyn, agreed, saying, &#8220;You touch the door handles and the booths, and it&#8217;s all so dirty, and then you sell fruit? I don&#8217;t know about that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/portauthority\/index.htm\">Port Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then you remember where you are: Organizers say the Greenmarket, held every Thursday, will further chip away at the terminal&#8217;s dingy, dirty reputation from yesteryear. &#8220;This market is the next chapter in the terminal&#8217;s evolution,&#8221; said Susan Bass Levin, deputy director of the Port Authority, acknowledging it was once &#8220;a place you would hesitate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-huzzah","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014","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=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}