{"id":5147,"date":"2012-07-15T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2013-03-03T09:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T14:55:05","slug":"neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/neon\/","title":{"rendered":"neon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Whereas most neighborhoods in new york city have zoning requirements designed (at least in theory) for the comfort and stability of their residents, Times Square&#8217;s zoning rules actually require buildings to put a minimum amount of lighted or neon signage on their exterior in order to stay in keeping with the character of the neighborhood.  A few of my favorites, most of which are not even commercial enterprises (in order: subway entrance, NYPD station, US Armed Forces recruiting station, and the Paramount Theater\/\/Hard Rock Cafe).<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_4223.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"623\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_4231.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"623\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_4241.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"623\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_4265.jpg\" width=\"623\" height=\"930\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whereas most neighborhoods in new york city have zoning requirements designed (at least in theory) for the comfort and stability of their residents, Times Square&#8217;s zoning rules actually require buildings to put a minimum amount of lighted or neon signage on their exterior in order to stay in keeping with the character of the neighborhood. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[22,14,10],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-architecture","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6ZBi-neon","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}