{"id":6098,"date":"2010-07-18T06:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2010-07-18T06:40:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T11:40:45","slug":"this_years_pedicab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/this_years_pedicab.html","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Pedicab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of year again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/07\/18\/2010-07-18_how_street_it_is_for_kings_of_the_fair_producers_get_lions_share_from_cookiecutt.html\">when we harp on street fairs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city collects 20% of proceeds &#8212; about $1.6 million a year &#8212; but that&#8217;s far less than the $4 million spent on policing the events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just may be something we can&#8217;t afford,&#8221; Bloomberg said earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofit groups that sponsor the events collect a very small cut of the proceeds, documents show.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>But Mardi Gras makes no apologies for its cookie-cutter fairs. It even offers package deals to vendors who work multiple fairs on a &#8220;buy 20, get seven free&#8221; basis.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of year again when we harp on street fairs: The city collects 20% of proceeds &#8212; about $1.6 million a year &#8212; but that&#8217;s far less than the $4 million spent on policing the events. &#8220;It just may be something we can&#8217;t afford,&#8221; Bloomberg said earlier this year. Nonprofit groups that sponsor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098","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=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}