{"id":845,"date":"2015-09-05T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2015-09-05T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T13:44:28","slug":"new-york-city-blog-aug-30-sept-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"New York City Blog  Aug.30 &#8211; Sept. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png?w=474\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>Steve Kulchek\u2019s old basketball ankle injury kicked in so he went to Sports Medicine at the Beth Israel Mecial Center on 14th Street and Union Square East. He brightened up when he saw the wing was named after Louis Armstrong, one of his favorite trumpeters. I asked him why a hospital wing would be named after a musician. It\u2019s an American curiosity, isn\u2019t it? Is it our love of celebrities? We\u2019re ahistorical but we need famous people. Can you imagine a photo of Lafayette eliciting the same response as Louis Armstrong? Never. Lafayette is dead and foreign. Besides, few people have heard of him. How about the picture of a saint? Can you imagine Saint Sabastian complete with arrows hanging in the medical center\u2019s atrium?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-847\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-847\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3360-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\" Louis Armstrong'\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3360.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3360.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3360.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3360.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Armstrong&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-846\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-846\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3356-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"The Louis Armstrong Wing\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3356.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3356.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3356.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_3356.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Louis Armstrong Wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:connection<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-845\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-845\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-845\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-845\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Kulchek\u2019s old basketball ankle injury kicked in so he went to Sports Medicine at the Beth Israel Mecial Center on 14th Street and Union Square East. 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I asked him why a hospital wing would be named &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York City Blog  Aug.30 &#8211; Sept. 5<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:connection<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-845\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-845\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-845\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-845\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=845&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[416,415,414,49],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QXad-dD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}