{"id":7137,"date":"2012-03-27T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2012-03-27T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:13:54","slug":"the_conquistador-lost_cities_of_gold_headlines_write_themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/the_conquistador-lost_cities_of_gold_headlines_write_themselves.html","title":{"rendered":"The Conquistador-Lost Cities Of Gold Headlines Write Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/35\/13\/bn_eldoradosold_2012_03_30_bk.html\">I never really understood what bumper cars had to do with lost cities of gold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This may be your last summer to bump your a&#8211; off in Coney Island.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Joe Sitt is considering closing Surf Avenue&#8217;s Eldorado Auto Skooter after buying the property from longtime owner Sheila Fitlin earlier this month, but plans are in motion to make sure that the classic Surf Avenue electric bumper car ride &#8212; whose famed pink sign told visitors to &#8220;bump your ass off&#8221; &#8212; will remain open for one more season.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/coneyisland\/amusementpark\/eldorado.jpg\" alt=\"Eldorado Bumper Cars -- &quot;Bump Your Ass Off,&quot; Coney Island, Brooklyn\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/coneyisland\/amusementpark\/index.htm\">Coney Island Amusement Core<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then again, I never really understood what bumper cars had to do with lost cities of gold: This may be your last summer to bump your a&#8211; off in Coney Island. Developer Joe Sitt is considering closing Surf Avenue&#8217;s Eldorado Auto Skooter after buying the property from longtime owner Sheila Fitlin earlier this month, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","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=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}