{"id":526,"date":"2005-12-09T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/sure_because_all_of_my_friends_live_in_midtown.html"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T18:33:28","slug":"sure_because_al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/sure_because_al.html","title":{"rendered":"Sure, Because All Of My Friends Live In Midtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor is pretty sure the strike won&#8217;t happen but is apparently encouraging people to think about <em>alternate housing arrangements<\/em> &#8220;just in case.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/373247p-317313c.html\">At least he didn&#8217;t suggest getting a bike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bloomberg took some heat in 2002 when he paid $663 for a 27-speed bicycle the day before a threatened strike by transit workers, who never struck.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Mike (The Bike) Bloomberg said his plans are more bare-bones &#8212; he&#8217;ll sleep on a cot in the city&#8217;s Emergency Management office in Brooklyn, then schlep over the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall on his own two feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to find the easiest ways to get to work, and if I can stay close by and walk [to City Hall], that&#8217;s so much the better,&#8221; said Hizzoner, whose E.79th St. townhouse is a good 7 miles from City Hall.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor is pretty sure the strike won&#8217;t happen but is apparently encouraging people to think about alternate housing arrangements &#8220;just in case.&#8221; At least he didn&#8217;t suggest getting a bike: Bloomberg took some heat in 2002 when he paid $663 for a 27-speed bicycle the day before a threatened strike by transit workers, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}