{"id":7895,"date":"2013-11-06T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2013-11-06T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:17:12","slug":"23rd-street-express-chinese-restaurant-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/?p=7895","title":{"rendered":"23rd Street Express Chinese Restaurant Vanishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 23rd Street Express chinese take-out restaurant on 23rd Street between 2nd &amp; 3rd Avenue is gone and has been replaced by Rats! Hopefully, the rats came AFTER the restaurant closed. Maybe if the building owner cleaned up the garbage that&#8217;s been lying outside for months now, they wouldn&#8217;t have a rat problem! It appears that this building and the one next to have been deserted, Undoubtedly, we will soon have one more faceless, bland luxury high-rise blighting the neighborhood and be losing more &#8216;affordable housing&#8217;! Isn&#8217;t there a community board? Is there any such thing as city planning? It seems Real Estate Developers and the resultant banks and drug stores are all that&#8217;s going to be left. Any old time stores are rapidly disappearing along with the favor that makes NEW YORK CITY!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7896\" alt=\"23express-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-1-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7898\" alt=\"23express-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-3-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-3.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7897\" alt=\"23express-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-2-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-2-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-2-1024x662.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-2-463x300.jpg 463w, http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/23express-2.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 23rd Street Express chinese take-out restaurant on 23rd Street between 2nd &amp; 3rd Avenue is gone and has been replaced by Rats! Hopefully, the rats came AFTER the restaurant closed. Maybe if the building owner cleaned up the garbage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/?p=7895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1733,1735,1736,1734,1737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eastmidtownplaza.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}