{"id":1270,"date":"2007-02-08T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/02\/08\/talking-to-americans-about-coming-here\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:56:12","slug":"talking-to-americans-about-coming-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/talking-to-americans-about-coming-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Americans about coming here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?578\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls Tourism was on a mission when it travelled to New York City the week before Christmas: To sell Niagara Falls as a year-round vacation place. The Review went along for the ride. Here&#8217;s the first of five parts. Part 2 runs Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Sophia Griffo sits at the acrylic and ice-blue bar inside Celsius restaurant at Bryant Park on a Sunday afternoon in December, sipping a hot chocolate with her father.<\/p>\n<p>Her family lives in a townhouse in Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side, where rents range between $1,600 for a studio apartment to $6,000 for a two-bedroom co-op. The neighbourhood is home to Jerry Seinfeld, Dustin Hoffman and Yoko Ono, some of whom, like the Griffos, own a home in Long Island&#8217;s East Hamptons &#8211; a cottage country of sorts for celebrities and well-heeled Manhattan residents eager to beat the searing heat and grime of summer in Gotham.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Griffo has yet to bring his own two children to Niagara Falls, but he did travel there when he was a kid. He can&#8217;t remember if the family crossed the border or if they stayed in their own country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the falls, so I guess we came to Canada,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But really, I don&#8217;t remember it at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If Niagara Falls Tourism&#8217;s manager Anna Pierce could describe her ideal new visitors to Niagara Falls, it would be Bill Griffo and his family: Affluent, professional, in possession of passports and willing to travel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls Tourism was on a mission when it travelled to New York City the week before Christmas: To sell Niagara Falls as a year-round vacation place. The Review went along for the ride. Here&#8217;s the first of five parts. Part 2 runs Friday. Four-year-old Sophia Griffo sits at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}