Archive for the 'Coney Island Blog' Category
Overtime Hot Dog Showdown in Coney Delivers Another Victory for Joey Chestnut
Yesterday’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest had a lot to habitable up to after final year’s heavily-hyped and record-breaking victory that saw Joey Chestnut bring the Mustard Belt back to America by snapping the six-year victory streak of legend Takeru Kobayashi. How did they manage to top it…
2019 Will Be a Big Year for Coney Island
The Coney Island rezoning process is starting in earnest with a “scoping” meeting coming up next month and the release of documents that only a planner or zoning lawyer could love. It’s all a prelude to the environmental affect study that has to be done so that the rezoning that would convert the he…
Curtain Rises Tonight on New Coney Island Show
The one thing that can be said about the discussions about giving Coney Island a radical redo is that it hasn’t been boring. There has been conflict. There have been surprises. And, tonight, there is likely to be a theatrical and very telegenic clash within supporters of the city’s new plan and new-…
Trick or Treat #2: Scary Stuff in Coney Island
This may be the scariest Coney Island rendering we’ve seen. Vague versions of it have trickled out and been pulled down quickly. It may be outdated, but it’s a treat to come across that vision of what might have been, or could still be, in all its glorious detail on Halloween. Woah.
· Architect F…
BREAKING: Another Astroland Season for Coney Island
Wow: The Daily News reports that Astroland will “open for one final season” thanks to a deal amidst Astroland owner, the Albert family, and Thor Equities.
Thor bought the Astroland property for $30 million in 2006, as part of its billion-dollar redevelopment plants, and it was suggested earlier t…
Two Die in Boating Accident Off Coney Island
A motorboat crashed into a tugboat pulling a barge final night and two motorboat passengers died after the vessel overturned. The incident occurred in the Ambrose Channel, approach the Verrazano Bridge.
According to the Daily News, a “Brooklyn party fishing boat” hit the tow line amoung the tugbo…
Coney Island Redo is Coming Along
Finally, a Coney Island story that is not about redevelopment, zoning or Thor Equities. It is about next year’s I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar and it’s billed as “the only queer femme swimsuit calendar in the U.S. of A.” Go, Coney Island.
· I Heart Brooklyn Girls at Coney Island [iheartbrook…
Coney Island Counterproposal: Go Green, Shoot Hoops?
“Coney Island cries out for an active city role,” writes Tom Angotti in the Gotham Gazette, and damn it, he’s going to tell the city just how to get involved! that is most likely the start of a Coney-covering trend. With all the problems surrounding Thor Equities’ controversial redevelopment plan, f…
Coney Island Report: Astroland’s final Day
In case you hadn’t heard, and even whether you have, Astroland shut down (possibly for good) yesterday. There was a protest calling for a one-year extension on the death sentence, but mostly a lot of public turned out to ride the rides and walk around and to have their quotes jotted down by repo…
Today is the final Day of Coney Island’s 2007 Season
Time for everyone to say good-bye to Coney Island, as the 2007 season for Astroland’s “Big Park” and Cyclone ends nowadays (the kiddie park will be open through mid-October). And with real estate developer Thor Equities and the city battling it out by Coney Island’s future, it’s unclear whether the …
Caught on Tape: increasingly Rats!
This week Inside Edition aired footage of rats in some of New York’s increasingly popular restaurants. The statement the program sent out states: “In middle to late August, Inside Edition’s ‘Rat Patrol’ took to the streets of Manhattan amidst 1am and 4am peering their cameras and flashlights i…
Who Will Front for Thor in Coney Island Now?
We don’t do a lot of who’s who development stuff, but a tipster tells us that Coney Island developer Joe Sitt and his PR firm The Marino Organization have parted ways. We don’t know whether Mr. Sitt is the dumper or the dumpee, but we do know that the Coney Island PR strategy has zigzagged bizarrely…
Some Coney Island Rides Pack It Up…For Good
While the future of Coney Island is still up in the air, some rides are already closing for good. The Post reports that the Spider and Zipper were packed up for the final time in their Coney Island location. Without an extension of their leases for 2008 from Thor Equities, the new owners of the land…
