{"id":14841,"date":"2009-09-07T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/churchs_third_act_mini-mall\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T20:21:44","slug":"churchs_third_act_mini-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14841","title":{"rendered":"Church&#39;s third act: mini-mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so glad to see the clubs go, but I&#8217;m guardedly optimistic,&#8221; said Susan Finley, co-founder of the Flatiron Alliance, which long battled Limelight and its troubled replacement, Club Avalon. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been lied to so many times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Residents are worried that the mall is &#8220;one big dodge to get a club going there,&#8221; said Board 5 Landmarks Chairman Howard Mendes, whose committee recommended rejecting the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to a large empty space in the floor plan that would be &#8220;perfect for dancing,&#8221; and to the continued ownership of real-estate developer Ben Ashkenazy, who rented the 163-year-old former Episcopal church at Sixth Avenue and 20th Street to Gatien.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/regional\/church_third_act_mini_mall_cINzqWEcAM2FIM6S3xM90H\">Read it all<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so glad to see the clubs go, but I&#8217;m guardedly optimistic,&#8221; said Susan Finley, co-founder of the Flatiron Alliance, which long battled Limelight and its troubled replacement, Club Avalon. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been lied to so many times.&#8221; Residents are worried<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14841\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,66,133,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}