{"id":5104,"date":"2009-03-12T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2009-03-12T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:03:36","slug":"5104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"Citi Field and C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"visibility:visible;\"><object width=\"426\" height=\"320\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/widget-fd.slide.com\/widgets\/slideticker.swf\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"l\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"cy=ms&amp;il=1&amp;channel=288230376171743485&amp;site=widget-fd.slide.com\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/widget-fd.slide.com\/widgets\/slideticker.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?cy=ms&amp;at=un&amp;id=288230376171743485&amp;map=1\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?cy=ms&amp;at=un&amp;id=288230376171743485&amp;map=2\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slide.com\/pivot?cy=ms&amp;at=un&amp;id=288230376171743485&amp;map=F\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS\">Not a bad day for tennis.  Ben and I won 2:1 against Powers and another gentleman.   Larry and Josh were there too.  I suspect that few of them might just live at the USTA.  Wish I had that much of time too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said in a letter to employees that the bank had operated at a profit for the first two months of this year and was on track, based on historical trends, to make $8.3 billion for the quarter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So C rose a grand 40 some cents to close at $1.45.  Big deal.  Still a penny stock thou.  The new development on College Point and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing is coming.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/12\/nyregion\/12shea.html\">Stadium Is Citi Field, but the Subway Stop Has Other Ideas<\/a>: the transit officials met with the Mets over the last few weeks, in hope that Mets would share the $20m Citi shell out each year for 20 years.  But the Mets said no. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Soffin [a transit official ] said $18 million had been spent so far, on refurbishing the platforms, painting the stations, installing new lights and improving wheelchair access. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I looked around, above and blow at the subway station there and saw no improvement what so ever.  Who pocketed the $18m?  It must be the greatest job to be a contractor to New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Not a bad day for tennis. Ben and I won 2:1 against Powers and another gentleman. Larry and Josh were there too. I suspect that few of them might just live at the USTA. Wish I had that much of time too. Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said in a letter to employees that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}