{"id":763,"date":"2006-03-02T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/losing_the_first_prosthetic_leg_posed_a_problem_but_misplacing_the_second_one_was_devastating.html"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:16:43","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:16:43","slug":"losing_the_firs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/losing_the_firs.html","title":{"rendered":"Losing The First Prosthetic Leg Posed A Problem, But Misplacing The Second One Was Devastating"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MTA’s lost and found unit is guarded by a Muppet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The lost and found — staffed by three workers — is tucked away under the A, C, E lines at Penn Station. The office’s entrance is guarded by an unclaimed stuffed Muppet character.<\/p>\n

A large storage room to the back houses row after row of shelves holding backpacks, briefcases, shopping bags and toys. The room has a low ceiling, and trains can be heard rumbling overhead every few minutes.<\/p>\n

Last year, the unit received 8,600 articles of which 1,500 were claimed. New York City Transit wants to improve the return rate.<\/p>\n

To that end, the agency has launched an awareness campaign whose centerpiece is a poster — featuring a lost prosthetic leg — which has been splashed all over the subways.<\/p>\n

The office staff keeps a collection of oddities found over the years, among which are two prosthetic legs and a set of fake teeth.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The No. 1 lost item is the cell phone. In order to protect against fraudulent claims, the office enforces strict rules before handing over a phone. A person must be able to call the phone or at least name people from the address book. If the phone is dead, they’ll send you home to get your charger.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MTA’s lost and found unit is guarded by a Muppet: The lost and found — staffed by three workers — is tucked away under the A, C, E lines at Penn Station. The office’s entrance is guarded by an unclaimed stuffed Muppet character. A large storage room to the back houses row after row […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}