{"id":369234,"date":"2026-10-09T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369234\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:42:10","slug":"classic-chronicle-a-friendly-competition-to-discover-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369234\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Chronicle: A friendly competition to discover New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 1992 Classic Chronicle segment, three hosts make the case for their favorite ways to experience New York City, from outdoor adventures and sports to Broadway, museums and dining<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">New York City becomes a friendly competition in this Classic Chronicle segment from 1992, as three hosts each argue for their own perfect Manhattan itinerary. Through good-natured banter, the episode highlights everything from fishing at sunrise and Ivy League football practice to Broadway, museums and some of the city&#8217;s newest attractions.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Classic Chronicle follows charter captain Joe Shasta on the East River, where he says, &#8220;A lot of people wouldn&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s possible. I mean, yeah, the perception of the harbor is not very good. But as you can see, this is year-round.&#8221; The segment also visits Columbia University&#8217;s football practice, where a coach explains the team uses players on both offense and defense &#8220;out of necessity,&#8221; and tours Manhattan&#8217;s first driving range, where owner Greg Cohen says plans are in place to keep golfers hitting through the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this 1992 Classic Chronicle segment, three hosts make the case for their favorite ways to experience New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[136319,207,4709,127678,136350,136320,75,136351,39392,9,24,55,54,56,5086,35494],"class_list":["post-369234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-136319","tag-broadway","tag-central-park","tag-classic-chronicle","tag-columbia-football","tag-east-river-fishing","tag-manhattan","tag-matisse","tag-museum-of-modern-art","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-planet-hollywood","tag-wcvb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369234","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=369234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}