{"id":825,"date":"2006-03-16T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/because_deep_down_people_just_love_the_idea_of_being_suspended_in_a_gondola_hundreds_of_feet_above_the_east_river.html"},"modified":"2006-03-16T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T18:41:04","slug":"because_deep_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/because_deep_do.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Deep Down, People Just Love The Idea Of Being Suspended In A Gondola Hundreds Of Feet Above The East River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments that should make you immediately skeptical about any public work include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/63217.htm\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so cool it will pay for itself&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A proposed $125 million ride-in-the-sky gondola system connecting Governors Island to Brooklyn and Manhattan would be such a tourist draw, it could pay for itself, officials said last night.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kelly, interim president of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp., told a public-information session the system &#8220;could be self-financed&#8221; either by the private sector or through the corporation, &#8220;given the tourist element.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Backstory: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/stunning_doesnt.html\">&#8220;Stunning Doesn&#8217;t Even Start To Convey The Majesty Of This Century&#8217;s Roosevelt Island Tram&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguments that should make you immediately skeptical about any public work include &#8220;It&#8217;s so cool it will pay for itself&#8221;: A proposed $125 million ride-in-the-sky gondola system connecting Governors Island to Brooklyn and Manhattan would be such a tourist draw, it could pay for itself, officials said last night. Paul Kelly, interim president of 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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}