{"id":7772,"date":"2017-02-07T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:48:05","slug":"bnb_brb_--bdb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/02\/bnb_brb_--bdb.html","title":{"rendered":"BNB? BRB &#8211;BDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/de-blasio-admin-broke-talks-airbnb-donations-article-1.2965910\">&#8220;But emails obtained by the Daily News make clear that City Hall cut off talks with Airbnb days after the mayor&#8217;s non-profit got the six-figure check&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After City Hall had engaged in cordial talks with Airbnb for two months in 2015, a politically powerful opponent of the home-sharing website gave $200,000 to Mayor de Blasio&#8217;s now-defunct non-profit group, Campaign for One New York.<\/p>\n<p>The cordiality quickly stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the donation, top aides to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen broke off communications with Airbnb. And the shift came as the mayor began ratcheting up enforcement against so-called illegal hotels that use Airbnb to attract customers.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence of events came to light in the Daily News ongoing investigation of de Blasio&#8217;s fundraising, and represents the closest timing to date between a big-dollar donation to CONY and mayoral action.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The donor, UniteHere, a national union affiliated with the union that squared off against Airbnb, the Hotel &#038; Motel Trades Council, insisted the donation had nothing to do with opposition to the home-sharing company.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But emails obtained by the Daily News make clear that City Hall cut off talks with Airbnb days after the mayor&#8217;s non-profit got the six-figure check&#8221;: After City Hall had engaged in cordial talks with Airbnb for two months in 2015, a politically powerful opponent of the home-sharing website gave $200,000 to Mayor de Blasio&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","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=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}