{"id":1179,"date":"2011-01-25T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-08-29T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:17:52","slug":"shooting-photos-at-the-hh-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/walks\/shooting-photos-at-the-hh-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting photos at the HH Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pet peeves as a walker and photographer is places that forbid photography in the outdoors. The biggest culprit by far is the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, a part of the MTA. Last June they reopened the Henry Hudson pedestrian walkway, and when I crossed it, I noticed that photography was strictly forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>After an exchange with one of their representatives, I was a little surprised to see this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JgeNhF5znZY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"664\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After all, according to what spokesperson Joyce Mulvaney told me,  &#8220;activity by a photographer on the Henry Hudson Bridge walkway carries the risk of distracting drivers crossing the bridge in the immediately adjacent traffic lane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I guess their video operation did not distract any drivers. Good for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pet peeves as a walker and photographer is places that forbid photography in the outdoors. The biggest culprit by far is the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, a part of the MTA. Last June they reopened the Henry Hudson pedestrian walkway, and when I crossed it, I noticed that photography was strictly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[128,127],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walks","tag-walking","tag-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}