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Coney Island archive
Coney Island
Suit: Coney rezoney was baloney!
Coney Island: The main opponents of a city plan to rezone Coney Island’s faded amusement area in hopes of encouraging the development of housing, retail and a new 12-acre ocean-front amusement park have sued the city on the grounds that the new theme park isn’t big enough to attract the hordes of tourists needed to sustain the long-sought revitalization. Comments (3).
New Aquarium revitalization plan finally has some real teeth
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg says that sharks are the key to making the New York Aquarium a real Coney Island attraction. Comments (2).
Sweet ‘Dreamland’!
Coney Island: A deal has been brokered to bring summer fun back to Dreamland on Coney Island! Comments (4).
IT’S OVER! Coney’s Dreamland will be closed for the rest of the summer
Coney Island: Coney Island’s biggest amusement park will remain closed this weekend — and for the rest of the summer — as a state Supreme Court judge refused to force landowner Joe Sitt to reopen the theme park that he abruptly shut down last week amid a rent dispute with the park’s operator. Comments (17).
LOCKOUT! Joe Sitt shuts down his own Coney amusement park
Coney Island: Developer Joe Sitt abruptly shut down the Dreamland amusement park on his land in Coney Island, the site of the old Astroland theme park, last Friday morning, saying that the operator owed more than $500,000 in rent. Comments (10).
This time, Joe Sitt has screwed up
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board, which has long championed Joe Sitt’s plan for Coney Island, makes a strong break with the developer after he locked out his own amusement park in the middle of the summer. Comments (3).
Joe Sitt locks out his theme park operator — and our readers chime in
Letters: Our Interweb story this week about Joe Sitt closing his own Coney Island amusement park in a rent dispute (“Lockout! Joe Sitt shuts down his own Coney amusement park,” Aug. 21) really got people talking. Here’s what they had to say. Comments (1).
UPDATE! Locked out Coney carny vows to reopen on Tuesday
Coney Island: The amusement park operator who was locked out by developer Joe Sitt last Friday wanted to be back in business on the old Astroland site on Tuesday, but a court shot him down. Comments (5).
At Coney, the past is a present
Coney Island: History Project guy is now offering a free audio walking tour of the area’s frolicksome past. Comments (1).
Is this a landmark? For ‘Shore’ it is!
Coney Island: Landmark status awaits — at long last, some say — at least two historic buildings in Coney Island, including the derelict Shore Theater, but possibly not the most famous site in the amusement area, Nathan’s Famous hot dog restaurant. Comments (11).
Full Council passes Mayor Bloomberg’s broad vision for Coney amusements, housing
Coney Island: The City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to redevelop Coney Island, a controversial plan that the mayor hopes will create a major tourist destination and livable neighborhood for permanent residents. Comments (2).
Council: Bloomy Coney rezoney is no baloney
Coney Island: A City Council committee approves the city’s plan to revive Coney Island. Comments (3).
Recchia is the true Coney phony
Coney Island: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board goes after Councilman Domenic Recchia for flip-flopping on Coney Island after getting his payoff from the mayor. Comments (5).
Oedipus Recchia! Council panel is not too keen on Bloomy’s Coney rezoney
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial plan to redevelop Coney Island came under a blistering attack from a hostile City Council committee last week. Comments (8).
‘Greatest show’ misses the mark
Dooley Noted: It’s not the “Greatest Show,” but it’s damn good entertainment. Comments (2).
It IS the ‘Greatest’ show
The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Mike McLaughlin takes a contrary view. Comments (7).
Sitt on this! Joe says Bloomy’s Coney rezoney is baloney
Coney Island: Coney Island’s would-be savior, Joe Sitt, broke a two-year silence to skewer the city’s controversial Coney Island redevelopment plan, just as Mayor Bloomberg’s rezoning proposal got a rubber stamp from the City Planning Commission on Wednesday. Comments (3).
No more Coney baloney: Joe sitts down with The Paper
Coney Island: Coney Island landowner Joe Sitt finally sat down with The Brooklyn Paper. Here are the highlights. Comment.
Feeding frenzy! Man vs. elephant in new Coney eating spectacle
Coney Island: Through the eons, the human race has never faced a challenge like this before — an eating contest against elephants! Comments (11).
Coney’s big top
Coney Island: The Cyclone and Parachute Jump aren’t the only landmarks on Coney Island’s skyline anymore! On Friday, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey raised their big top in advance of next Thursday’s opening night. Comments (1).
Albany throws Bloomy a rabbit punch in Coney
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to redevelop Coney Island is tied up in Albany, causing yet another headache for the controversial proposal to create a new amusement park and thousands of apartments on the hard-luck peninsula. Comments (3).
It must be summer — there are lots of people wearing nothing! (Click now!)
Coney Island: A hot day. Coney Island. The beach. Need we say more? Comment.
Group fights Marty’s ‘Potato chip’
Coney Island: More than 100 protesters rallied on Sunday in Coney Island to protest Borough President Markowitz’s plan for a $64-million amphitheater to replace the band shell in Asser Levy Park. Comments (14).
Dis-Astroland! Sitt’s Coney ‘Festival’ falls short
Coney Island: Joe Sitt’s much-hyped “Festival by the Sea” didn’t live up to its name. Comments (8).
Theme park experts urge city to ‘Disney-fy’ Coney
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg’s hand-picked panel of amusement industry experts is urging the city to find a single operator to run a proposed new theme park for Coney Island, a controversial suggestion that would radically change the nature of the People’s Playground, once the domain of a multitude of independent carnies and ride owners. Comments (13).
Sitt not on it — Joe’s Coney ‘Festival’ suffers setback
Coney Island: In an embarrassing setback, Coney Island’s would-be savior, developer Joe Sitt, has postponed the highly publicized grand opening of rides, freak shows and vendors this weekend. Comments (9).
A bunch of clowns at Coney!
Coney Island: Tickets are now on sale for the Ringling Brothers’ summertime Coney Island run. Comments (5).
Marty tells all! Beep bears his thinking about Coney
Coney Island: Marty loves Bloomy’s Coney rezoney! Read all about it in this exclusive interview. Comments (4).
Marty loves Bloomy’s Coney rezoney
Coney Island: Borough President Markowitz has come out strongly in favor of Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial plan for redeveloping Coney Island with new amusements and housing. Comments (5).
Marty loves this potato chip
Coney Island: Here’s a first look at the borough president’s Coney Island ampitheater. Comments (4).
Bread and circuses at Coney
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper’s editorial board sees a bright summer at Coney Island — but lingering problems once the tent stakes are pulled up. Comments (2).
Coney Boardwalk could be ‘Sitt’-ing pretty
Coney Island: Landowner Joe Sitt says signs like these on the Boardwalk are a thing of the past. Comments (2).
The circus IS coming to town!
Coney Island: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will have a summer engagement in Coney Island, Mayor Bloomberg announced last week, one month after The Brooklyn Paper first reported the so-called Greatest Show on Earth would be coming to the People’s Playground. Comments (4).
Coney reopens! Big whoop
Coney Island: The shrinking amusement area of Coney Island reopened on Sunday, but it’s going to be weeks before Coney Island shows signs of life. Comments (7).
More Coney baloney
Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper restates its position: Mayor Bloomberg is peddling Coney baloney! Comment.
Another chance to shake your Coney-maker
Coney Island: You partied for Coney Island on Tuesday, so now it’s time to shake your Coney-maker once more. Comment.
Ringling Brothers coming to Coney: sources
Coney Island: The world-famous Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Barnum circus will deliver a shot in the arm to the flagging “People’s Playground” by setting up its big top in Coney Island this summer, two sources told The Brooklyn Paper last Thursday. Comments (4).
Coney’s future collides with current realities at hearing
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to reshape Coney Island’s ramshackle “People’s Playground” with rides, attractions, hotels and thousands of apartments collided with scores of critics in the first public hearing of the controversial plan on Tuesday night — but the biggest challenge could be the unrelenting standoff between the mayor and Coney Island land baron Joe Sitt. Comments (2).
Our cartoonist takes on Bay Ridge’s anti-karaoke community board
Coney Island: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming wants his karaoke! Comments (1).
Shake your Coney-maker to ‘save’ the People’s Playground
Coney Island: One awesome party next week might not be enough to save Coney Island, but it can’t hurt. Comments (2).
Community board wants changes in Bloomy Coney rezoney
Coney Island: Coney Island’s community board called on Wednesday night for Mayor Bloomberg to radically remake his controversial plan for the People’s Playground with concessions to its primary critic: the amusement area’s main landowner, Joe Sitt. Comments (2).
Our cartoonist on Coney
Coney Island: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming weighs in on this week’s supposed approval of Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island plan by the neighborhood’s community board. Comment.
CB13 panel backs — and bucks — the mayor on Coney rezoney
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial plan to remake Coney Island won — and lost — in a community board committee vote on Monday night that revealed vast local concerns about the mayor’s vision and some support for the amusement area’s main landowner Joe Sitt, an outspoken critic of the mayor’s ambitions. Comments (1).
Amos sings! Bard of Coney belts it out in our offices!
Coney Island: Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island, stopped by our DUMBO offices on Monday to sing his hit single, “Save Coney Island” — and, more important, send a message in song to the Bloomberg Administration. With video … Comments (2).
City: Rocket will soar again
Coney Island: City officials accepted Astroland’s iconic rocket as a gift — and vow to include it in a revived Coney Island amusement park. Comments (1).
Bloomy’s plan is full of holes
Coney Island: Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to restore vitality to Coney Island with gleaming new rides, hotels and attractions and thousands of apartments on desolate blocks looks good on paper, but the effort to succeed where at least four previous mayors failed raises more questions than it answers. Comments (4).
Aquarium under water in Paterson budget
Coney Island: The New York Aquarium, staring at the loss of state funds in the new budget, says the cuts could drag down Coney Island at a time when the historic amusement neighborhood is starved for marquee tourist attractions. Comments (1).
Coney residents: Asser Levy us alone!
Coney Island: Borough President Markowitz’s pet project — a major concert venue in Coney Island that would be a physical legacy of his two (and perhaps three) terms in office — crashed into neighborhood opposition from critics who say it will be too big and too loud. Comments (13).
Dog gone? Nathan’s could be victim of Coney success
Coney Island: The iconic Nathan’s hot dog stand, which has been in Coney Island since 1916, has emerged as the test case in the city’s quest to spur a renaissance in the People’s Playground by rezoning the limping area. Comments (3).
The future of Coney Island is no longer porn
Coney Island: The Web site created by Coney Island landowner Joe Sitt to herald “the future of Coney Island” is no longer an adult-only site that hawks “the best porn on the Net.” The Brooklyn Paper solves one of the strangest Coney mysteries since the Fiji mermaid. Comment.
Dog gone? Nathan’s could be victim of Coney success
Coney Island: The city’s plans for turning Coney Island into a year round tourist destination may lead to the demolition of the world famous Nathan’s Famous hot dog stand. Comments (9).
… And now for something completely useless: The public offers its vision for Coney Island
Coney Island: The Manhattan-based the Municipal Arts Society asked the public for its ideas for Coney Island. Here’s what you came up with. Comments (7).
The future of Coney Island is now porn! Sitt gives up site — and now it’s XXX rated
Coney Island: A Web site created by Coney Island landowner Joe Sitt to herald “the future of Coney Island” is now an adult-only site that hawks “the best porn on the Net.” Comments (7).
Coney — the destruction continues
Coney Island: The iconic, cartoonish Coney Island Rocket was removed from its long time perch atop a fast-food stand in Astroland on Tuesday as part of the dismantling of the theme park that went out of business last fall. Comments (1).
Sitt seeks more Coney land
Coney Island: A reclusive fast-food mogul who once dreamed of saving Coney Island with his own massive amusement park is close to selling his long-dormant land to the current self-styled savior of the “People’s Playground” and, in doing so, make it harder — and more expensive — for the city to realize its own vision for revitalizing the area. Comments (5).
Boardwalk of shame! Boutique shuttered for criticizing Coney landowner
Coney Island: The Lola Staar boutique on the Coney Island Boardwalk — part souvenir stand, part rallying place for critics of a real-estate developer’s plan for a Vegas-style Xanadu — has not been offered a new lease, a casualty of its owner’s outspokenness. Comments (4).
Abandoned ship
Coney Island: It’s a race against time to save two iconic structures from the recently closed Astroland park in Coney Island. Comments (5).
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