{"id":764,"date":"2006-03-02T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/57th_street_automat_building_to_be_demolished.html"},"modified":"2006-03-02T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:24:30","slug":"57th_street_aut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/57th_street_aut.html","title":{"rendered":"57th Street Automat Building To Be Demolished?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last remaining automat building in New York <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/19\/9\/news&#038;columns\/changingcity.cfm\">may be demolished<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city&#8217;s last-standing Automat appears headed for demolition. The Times recently confirmed that a new development would obliterate one of Manhattan&#8217;s last surviving temple to working-class opulence, where coffee was poured out of dolphin spigots and everything from mashed potatoes to chicken potpie could be enjoyed for a nickel.<\/p>\n<p>The building, located on West 57th Street west of Sixth Avenue, is an Art Moderne treasure, with gentle curves and wide, flat lines that make it look like a giant jukebox. But it&#8217;s also in a prime location.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Shelly&#8217;s picture on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/57thst\/sixth-ninth\/index.htm\">this page<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last remaining automat building in New York may be demolished: The city&#8217;s last-standing Automat appears headed for demolition. The Times recently confirmed that a new development would obliterate one of Manhattan&#8217;s last surviving temple to working-class opulence, where coffee was poured out of dolphin spigots and everything from mashed potatoes to chicken potpie could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}