{"id":6370,"date":"2011-02-03T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T13:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2011-02-03T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T13:25:33","slug":"kurt_andersen_comes_down_against_basketball_wants_to_take_recreation_out_of_parks_recreation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/kurt_andersen_comes_down_against_basketball_wants_to_take_recreation_out_of_parks_recreation.html","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Andersen Comes Down Against Basketball, Wants To Take &#8220;Recreation&#8221; Out Of &#8220;Parks &#038; Recreation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/34\/6\/dtg_andersenpiazza_2011_2_4_bk.html\">there&#8217;s also something really pretentious sounding about &#8220;piazza&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>He told [the Brooklyn Paper] that his notion is to annex the &#8220;underused&#8221; western portion of [Carroll Park] near Court Street for the piazza, setting up tables, chairs and awnings &#8212; a cosmopolitan space where area caf\u00c3\u00a9s could serve drinks and food.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Andersen, the former architecture and design critic for Time magazine and a co-founder of Spy magazine, conceded that basketball players could be displaced by his plan, but ballers would have a readily available option nearby, as PS 58 at Smith and First Place has outdoor courts.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly, this connects to the ethnic heritage of the neighborhood of the last century,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But to me, this is for everyone in the neighborhood,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/carrollgardens\/carrollpark\/index.htm\">Carroll Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to mention that there&#8217;s also something really pretentious sounding about &#8220;piazza&#8221;: He told [the Brooklyn Paper] that his notion is to annex the &#8220;underused&#8221; western portion of [Carroll Park] near Court Street for the piazza, setting up tables, chairs and awnings &#8212; a cosmopolitan space where area caf\u00c3\u00a9s could serve drinks and food. . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","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=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6371,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions\/6371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}