{"id":5681,"date":"2010-01-08T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2010-01-08T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:31:56","slug":"walking_the_plank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/walking_the_plank.html","title":{"rendered":"Walking The Plank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some of what all your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/04\/01\/2009-04-01_chunk_of_stimulus_will_only_fix_15_of_42.html\">stimulus money<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2010\/01\/08\/2010-01-08_missing_bolts_faulty_planks_mar_new_coney_boardwalk.html\">going toward<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Newly rebuilt chunks of the famed Coney Island Boardwalk are already starting to fall apart, advocates said.<\/p>\n<p>On the stretch of the Boardwalk fronting Coney&#8217;s amusement area, where the Parks Department finished installing new planks last spring, there are now screws popping out of their holes and planks coming loose and protruding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not even a year old, and we&#8217;re right back to square one,&#8221; said Todd Dobrin, chairperson of Friends of the Boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>The new planks are part of a $30 million project to rebuild 15 blocks of the fabled 42-block stretch.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/coneyisland\/beach\/index.htm\">Coney Island Beach &#038; Boardwalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some of what all your stimulus money is going toward: Newly rebuilt chunks of the famed Coney Island Boardwalk are already starting to fall apart, advocates said. On the stretch of the Boardwalk fronting Coney&#8217;s amusement area, where the Parks Department finished installing new planks last spring, there are now screws popping out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","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=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}