{"id":7143,"date":"2012-03-29T08:33:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2012-03-29T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:33:33","slug":"the_i-told-you-so_moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/the_i-told-you-so_moment.html","title":{"rendered":"The I-Told-You-So Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/20120329\/harlem\/raids-wont-force-liquor-store-reinstall-ghetto-security-owner-says\">Burglars agree with the neighborhood association in Harlem<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After residents of the Mount Morris Park Historic District complained they gave the store a &#8220;ghetto&#8221; look that did not fit into a neighborhood with celebrity residents such as Maya Angelou and $2 million brownstones, he removed the glass and installed see-through gates to comply with city building codes.<\/p>\n<p>Business was good until the early morning hours of March 17. That&#8217;s when burglars snipped the gates, drilled a hole in the lock and made off with $4,000 in cash and 180 bottles of Ciroc, Hennessy, Patron and Remy Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Five nights later, the same men broke in again, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I had the other gate [in], this wouldn&#8217;t have happened,&#8221; said [the owner], referring to the riot gates that angered local residents<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[The] vice president of the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association, which objected to the original design of the store, said his group is upset about what happened to [the owner].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is embarrassing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It puts a bad taste in our mouths. We know some people are going to say: &#8216;I told you so.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burglars agree with the neighborhood association in Harlem: After residents of the Mount Morris Park Historic District complained they gave the store a &#8220;ghetto&#8221; look that did not fit into a neighborhood with celebrity residents such as Maya Angelou and $2 million brownstones, he removed the glass and installed see-through gates to comply with city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oh_well_what_do_you_do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","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=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}