{"id":7679,"date":"2018-04-29T21:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2018-04-29T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:41:56","slug":"new-yorkthe-bowery-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/new-yorkthe-bowery-30\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/The Bowery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2018\/bowery_cafe_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bowery_cafe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bowery_cafe.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bowery_cafe-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>The Bowery and Delancey Street &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>Not many know this, but \u00a0Hitler was obsessed with inflicting direct damage to the United States, and had plans to drop a nuclear bomb on New York. Ground zero was this exact corner &#8212; the Bowery and Delancey &#8212; equidistant between Downtown and Midtown. Fortunately, the Nazis ran out of time, and were defeated before they developed the bomb.<\/p>\n<p>It is still an epicenter of sorts. Traffic going to and from the Williamsburg Bridge congeals at this point where restaurant supply outlets and lighting stores vie with sidewalk cafes for dominance. It feels a little like the center of all things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TargetmapNY-medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TargetmapNY-medium.jpg 562w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TargetmapNY-medium-476x700.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bowery and Delancey Street &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose Not many know this, but \u00a0Hitler was obsessed with inflicting direct damage to the United States, and had plans to drop a nuclear bomb on New York. Ground zero was this exact corner &#8212; the Bowery and Delancey &#8212; equidistant between Downtown and Midtown. Fortunately, the [&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-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","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=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7688,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}