{"id":1807,"date":"2010-10-20T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2010-10-20T12:48:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:48:50","slug":"new-yorkeast-river-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/new-yorkeast-river-park\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/East River Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/eastriverparkfield.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1808\" title=\"eastriverpark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/eastriverpark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/eastriverpark.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/eastriverpark-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWilliamsburg Bridge and East River Park &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>I went to East River Park to my son&#8217;s soccer game yesterday evening. 107 years ago when the Williamsburg Bridge was opened, this area, just to the south&#8211;called Corlears Hook&#8211;was comprised of docks, factories, and tenement housing. 19th century Corlears Hook had an unsavory reputation due to its thieves and prostitutes&#8211;hence the term &#8220;hookers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, the docks have been replaced by parkland, and towering housing projects dominate the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williamsburg Bridge and East River Park &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose I went to East River Park to my son&#8217;s soccer game yesterday evening. 107 years ago when the Williamsburg Bridge was opened, this area, just to the south&#8211;called Corlears Hook&#8211;was comprised of docks, factories, and tenement housing. 19th century Corlears Hook had an unsavory reputation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}