According to David W. Dunlap \u00a0(“A Rare Visit Inside a Deteriorating Gem (Hard Hat Required)”, The New York Times, May 21, 2015) who recently had a tour of its’ crumbling interior, the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park (New York City), built in 1924 was in terrible condition by 1954. Its’ present condition is even worse. The last repair work on the monument took place in the early 1960s. Now, the Riverside Park Conservancy is about to raise half a million dollars for an exploratory study of the structure’s condition. It’s been a long time coming and it’s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to David W. Dunlap \u00a0(“A Rare Visit Inside a Deteriorating Gem (Hard Hat Required)”, The New York Times, May 21, 2015) who recently had a tour of its’ crumbling interior, the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park (New York City), built in 1924 was in terrible condition by 1954. Its’ present condition is … Continue reading “It's been a long time coming”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}