{"id":6851,"date":"2011-12-13T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2011-12-13T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:54:41","slug":"if_it_aint_broke_break_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/if_it_aint_broke_break_it.html","title":{"rendered":"If It Ain’t Broke, Break It"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point people will begin to seriously distrust the point and purpose of community boards. First there’s Community Board 1 in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where they dislike outdoor patios<\/a>. Then there is Manhattan’s Community Board 2, which apparently has a thing against Montreal Smoked Meat<\/a>. And now you have Manhattan’s Community Board 10 in Harlem, where board members are looking to snuff out a burgeoning nightlife scene before it really even takes off<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Central Harlem community board is considering a plan to require all new bars and restaurants to stop serving liquor at 2 a.m., two hours earlier than normal.<\/p>\n

The proposal has divided Community Board 10 down the middle. Some members believe the requirement would put new businesses at a competitive disadvantage to established businesses that can serve alcohol until 4 a.m. Others want to get a grip on Harlem’s bar boom before things get out of hand as in the East Village and Lower East Side, where a near tripling of DWI arrests was blamed on growing nightlife in the area.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

[The CB 10 chair] said bar owners should be able to know the board’s preference because it will impact where they decide to open.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last part doesn’t sound all that threatening, until you realize that it’s absolutely supposed to sound threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point people will begin to seriously distrust the point and purpose of community boards. First there’s Community Board 1 in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where they dislike outdoor patios. Then there is Manhattan’s Community Board 2, which apparently has a thing against Montreal Smoked Meat. And now you have Manhattan’s Community Board 10 in […]<\/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-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","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=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}