{"id":182519,"date":"2026-04-01T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:35:10","slug":"nyc-is-so-broke-the-brooklyn-bridge-might-get-roommates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182519\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC is so broke, the Brooklyn Bridge might get roommates"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City Council is floating a wild money-making scheme \u2014 to rent out the iconic Brooklyn Bridge\u2019s hidden rooms \u2014 to help plug the Big Apple\u2019s cash hole.<\/p>\n

Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics<\/a><\/p>\n

Tucked inside the world-famous span\u2019s stone anchorages is a total of 13,000 square feet of hidden vaults that once hosted art shows but has been locked up since 2001.<\/p>\n

\"AThe City Council is floating a wild money-making scheme \u2014 to rent out the iconic Brooklyn Bridge\u2019s hidden rooms \u2014 to help plug the Big Apple\u2019s cash hole. REUTERS<\/p>\n

The space is currently being used as a glorified parking garage for city-owned vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead of storing cars there, the council suggested City Hall slap a \u201cFor Rent\u201d sign on the front of the vaults to raise much-needed cash.<\/p>\n

At average Manhattan rents, the city could rake in about $17 million a year if it fully leased the space, according to council estimates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bridge\u2019s rented rooms could start coughing up the millions of dollars as early as fiscal 2027, the council wrote in its budget response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s own controversial spending plan Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council is floating a wild money-making scheme \u2014 to rent out the iconic Brooklyn Bridge\u2019s hidden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11198,7739,14927,301,57,9,24,55,54,56,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-182519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn-bridge","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-city-budget","11":"tag-city-council","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}