{"id":5938,"date":"2010-04-30T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:30:39","slug":"nyc_company_secures_whimsical_european_tourist_market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/nyc_company_secures_whimsical_european_tourist_market.html","title":{"rendered":"NYC &#038; Company Secures Whimsical European Tourist Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you lie down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/tijuana_to_the_world.html\">hordes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/tijuana_on_the.html\">of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/the_gretna_green_of_the_northeast.html\">European<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/maybe_add_some.html\">tourists<\/a>, you wake up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yournabe.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/30\/brooklyn\/courier-yn_brooklyn_front_page-all_brooklynbridgelocks_2010_04_30_bk.txt\">locks on your bridges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A pop cultural phenomenon that has turned an Italian bridge into a locksmith&#8217;s paradise has jumped across the Atlantic and is threatening to cover the Brooklyn Bridge in lovers&#8217; padlocks.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of securing a symbol of amore to a bridge &#8212; and tossing the keys into the river below &#8212; dates back to a 1992 book by sugary Italian novelist Federico Moccia, but the tradition didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take off until the movie version of &#8220;Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo&#8221; came out in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when Roman authorities suddenly had to deal with thousands of lovers clipping all manner of Master, Kryptonite and Medco locks to the Ponte Milvio &#8212; and throwing the keys into the muddy Tiber. Well, guess what, Brooklynites: the tradition is here.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/bridges\/brooklyn\/index.htm\">Brooklyn Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you lie down with hordes of European tourists, you wake up with locks on your bridges: A pop cultural phenomenon that has turned an Italian bridge into a locksmith&#8217;s paradise has jumped across the Atlantic and is threatening to cover the Brooklyn Bridge in lovers&#8217; padlocks. The tradition of securing a symbol of amore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}