{"id":205,"date":"2012-02-22T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-02-22T22:03:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:03:31","slug":"the-character-of-silver-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/2012\/02\/the-character-of-silver-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"The character of Silver Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvshp.org\/_gvshp\/preservation\/nyu\/nyu-2031-ltr-b.htm\" target=\"_blank\">form letters<\/a> that the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation asks you to send to various officials all contain the same bullshit phrase: &#8220;Please protect the character of our neighborhood&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-08-Silver-Towers1.48.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-08-Silver-Towers1.48-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Silver Towers south\" width=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-08-Silver-Towers1.48-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-08-Silver-Towers1.48-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYes, that&#8217;s right.  Some people believe that the character of Greenwich Village is intimately bound up with a curb cut leading to a filthy concrete garage entrance, an unadorned cast iron fence keeping the public off of a pointless lawn, and a car-free street that manages to be devoid of pedestrian activity.  Oh, Scott Stringer, save this vulnerable piece of neighborhood character!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The form letters that the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation asks you to send to various officials all contain the same bullshit phrase: &#8220;Please<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congestion-pricing","category-greenwich-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}