{"id":985,"date":"2006-04-19T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/hanging_harrowing_and_the_hizzoner_high-five.html"},"modified":"2006-04-19T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:31:02","slug":"hanging_harrowi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/hanging_harrowi.html","title":{"rendered":"Hanging, Harrowing, And The Hizzoner High-Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roosevelt Island Tram stalled between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/19\/nyregion\/19cnd-roosevelt.html?ex=1303099200&#038;en=ee1af272c0a07c92&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">stranding passengers for like days<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A four-minute trip on the Roosevelt Island Tramway turned into a harrowing overnight ordeal as a series of power failures left about 70 people suspended hundreds of feet in the air, forcing a daring rescue over the East River that ended early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>By 4:30 a.m. &#8212; nearly 12 hours after the trams first stalled &#8212; all the passengers were off the two trams, which had been moving in opposite directions, one towards Manhattan&#8217;s East Side and the other towards Roosevelt Island.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Cheers accompanied each successful rescue effort. Children from the first group, which had eight children and five adults, exchanged high-fives with Mayor Bloomberg after touching ground at the Roosevelt Island terminal about 11:30 p.m. Passengers were greeted with juice, cookies and, for several Hasidic Jews in the first group, matzo.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The ordeal was especially difficult for people who did not like heights. Mary Hirschhorn said her husband, Alan Hirschhorn, one of the stranded passengers, was among them. &#8220;He&#8217;s very nervous,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He&#8217;s upset. I&#8217;m never going to take it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Twelve-year-old] Dax [Maier], the young tennis player, agreed that he and the babysitter would be taking the subway from now on.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait for that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/stunning_doesnt.html\">Calatrava tram<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roosevelt Island Tram stalled between Manhattan and Roosevelt Island, stranding passengers for like days: A four-minute trip on the Roosevelt Island Tramway turned into a harrowing overnight ordeal as a series of power failures left about 70 people suspended hundreds of feet in the air, forcing a daring rescue over the East River that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}