{"id":332,"date":"2011-09-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/times-square-in-new-york-facing-27-million-redesign\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:51:26","slug":"times-square-in-new-york-facing-27-million-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/times-square-in-new-york-facing-27-million-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square in New York Facing $27 Million Redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"&quot;Times Square,&quot; Flickr photo credit: snorpey\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/11\/Times_Square_Redesign.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Times Square,&quot; Flickr photo credit: snorpey\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Artistic Rendering of The New Times Square<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The famous Times Square in <strong>New York<\/strong> is facing a $27 million redesign.<\/p>\n<p>Flashy, humongous signs that greet the millions of tourists off of their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-new-york-city-nyc-new-york\">New York flights<\/a><\/strong> will soon be transformed into \u201csleek silver-gray spaces populated by slablike benches and metallic tiles\u201d according to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/28\/nyregion\/times-square-pedestrian-plazas-to-get-a-makeover.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong> report.<\/p>\n<p>Still needing to be approved by the city, it\u2019s expected to be done in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, was quoted in the New York Times report saying \u201cwe have a dump-looking plaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tompkins calls the Times Square redesign\u2019s plan a chance to \u201cSimplify and declutter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Yorkers<\/strong> would be happy to know that one of the redesign\u2019s goals is have walkways organized to a point so they can be on one side and tourists on the other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Times Square,&#8221; CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snorpey\/3317497657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Snorpey <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artistic Rendering of The New Times Square &nbsp; The famous Times Square in New York is facing a $27 million redesign. Flashy, humongous signs that greet the millions of tourists off of their New York flights will soon be transformed into \u201csleek silver-gray spaces populated by slablike benches and metallic tiles\u201d according to the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201614,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/97201614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}