{"id":7179,"date":"2012-04-28T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2012-04-28T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T15:25:07","slug":"the_value-added_pedestrian_plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/the_value-added_pedestrian_plaza.html","title":{"rendered":"The Value-Added Pedestrian Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Value-added&#8221; in the sense that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesledger.com\/stories\/2012\/17\/plazaupdate_jh_2012_04_26_q.html\">it&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving<\/a> &#8212; to politicians, newspaper reporters and various community groups:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At a town hall meeting held by U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson Heights) and City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) April 11, opponents once again made the case that the plaza, installed by the city Department of Transportation in October, should be removed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because if this pedestrian plaza didn&#8217;t exist, what would we be spending our mental space on?<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/jacksonheights\/37thrd\/index.htm\">37th Road in Jackson Heights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Value-added&#8221; in the sense that it&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving &#8212; to politicians, newspaper reporters and various community groups: At a town hall meeting held by U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson Heights) and City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) April 11, opponents once again made the case that the plaza, installed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","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=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}