{"id":907,"date":"2006-04-03T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/you_asked.html"},"modified":"2006-04-03T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T17:32:57","slug":"you_asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/you_asked.html","title":{"rendered":"You Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/01\/nyregion\/01chinatown.html?ex=1301547600&#038;en=6fdabac1c8d141e0&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">The Times does not mince words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>What could require, in the words of the official news release, such &#8220;state-of-the-art, high-volume refuse containers&#8221; that are triple the cost of the older, dumpier $500 garbage cans?<\/p>\n<p>In a word, Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Summertime can be especially grim, said [Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation Executive Director] Mr. [Wellington] Chen, who as a teenager once packed and shipped women&#8217;s wigs in a sweaty Canal Street warehouse. Streams of water from fish markets, spilled food, graffiti and dilapidated storefronts are vivid, and largely unwanted, impressions of Chinatown for visitors, Mr. Chen said.<\/p>\n<p>New garbage cans are only the beginning, he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times does not mince words: What could require, in the words of the official news release, such &#8220;state-of-the-art, high-volume refuse containers&#8221; that are triple the cost of the older, dumpier $500 garbage cans? In a word, Chinatown. . . . Summertime can be especially grim, said [Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation Executive Director] Mr. [&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-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}