Editorial: Our editorial board is skeptical of a Municipal Art Society scheme for Coney Island.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Chris Cascarano
Coney Island: It’s a race against time to save two iconic structures from the recently closed Astroland park in Coney Island.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: The city has budgeted $200 million in taxpayer money to buy privately held land and make other improvements in Coney Island as part of its turnaround plan for down-on-its-luck neighborhood.
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By Mike McLaughlin
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Coney Island: The city is moving forward with a controversial plan to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to buy out Coney Island’s principal landowner and end a years-long standoff to control the amusement area’s destiny.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper file / Tom Callan
Coney Island: The city won a key battle in the block-by-block war for the future of Coney Island by buying a parcel of land once coveted by Mayor Bloomberg’s bitter rival.
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Editorial: Our editorial board says that Mayor Bloomberg’s scheme to rezone Coney Island is actually an end run around the community.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: Astroland owner Carol Albert is selling 20 rides on the Web site www.rides4u.com. If you want to recreate the Space Age–themed playland, you can buy them all for $1.847 million, or, choose individual rides. Here’s some of what’s available.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Coney Island: Coney Island’s beloved Astroland amusement park closed on Sunday — apparently for good, despite a last-ditch city effort to eke out another year for the 46-year-old carnival.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Gary Thomas
Coney Island: Astroland will close for good on Sunday.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Coney Island: Coney Island Sideshow star Insectavora to release a new DVD. And she’s singing?
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By Lisa J. Curtis
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Coney Island: Filmmaker Joanna Lipper screens her remake of the classic Coney Island film “Little Fugitive” at the Coney Island Museum on Aug. 30.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Gary Thomas
Coney Island: Coney Island’s historic Astroland will close up for the season in just over a month — and when it does, it may be closing for good.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner
Coney Island: This weekend, more than 500 visitors came out for the opening of the Coney Island History Project’s latest show, “The Astroland Archives Photography Exhibit: Back to the Future.”
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Adrian Kinloch
Coney Island: The state of Coney Island is not strong, one of its most vocal boosters said this week.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: Coney Island’s “Summer of Hope” has gone from sizzler to fizzler.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: Residents and fans of Brooklyn’s beloved “People’s Playground” have a new name for their seaside amusement zone — Crony Island. Neighborhood groups and individuals say Mayor Bloomberg betrayed them when the city reduced the size of a planned city-owned amusement park in order to win over holdout local landowners, principally Joe Sitt of Thor Equities, who do not want to sell their land.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Adrian Kinloch
Coney Island: The most outspoken critic of the city’s plan to transform Coney Island from a seasonal, independent amusement area into a corporate-run, year-round pleasure zone has resigned in protest from the city agency guiding the redevelopment process.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Coney Island: Borough President Markowitz says it’s time for the beleaguered New York Aquarium to swim with the big fish — and that means allowing Brooklynites to control its board.
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By Jeff Bachner
Coney Island: Our photographer brings you all the color — and titillation — of this year’s Mermaid Parade in Coney Island.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Sebastian Kahnert
Coney Island: Developer Joe Sitt is bringing new rides and attractions to Coney Island and has rechristened the next three months the “Summer of Hope” for the beleaguered amusement district. Opponents, however, say Sitt represents a “Future of Nope” for the fabled “People’s Playground.”
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: City officials say their revised vision for Coney Island, which includes new attractions, hotels and retail alongside a downsized amusement park, must win over skeptical elected officials and private landowners — or else.
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Editorial: The future of Coney Island looks brighter than ever, thanks to a deal between the city and Joe Sitt — an agreement that The Paper long advocated.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Coney Island: The fight for the soul of Coney Island begins for real next week when supporters of independent amusement operators and the neighborhood’s private developers battle a city plan to buy up land and create a new and expanded amusement area that the mayor believes will save the faded “People’s Playground.”
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By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner
Coney Island: A principal opponent of the city’s plan to revitalize Coney Island was booed down at a public meeting on Monday night, prompting city officials to cut off the blustery politician mid-speech.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Coney Island: Borough President Markowitz is so under-whelmed by the $1.45 million his office spent to light up Coney Island’s landmark Parachute Jump that he has convinced the mayor to toss in another in another $2 million toward “blinging up” the long-defunct amusement park ride.
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By Adrian Kinloch
The Brooklyn Paper / Adrian Kinloch
Coney Island: The weather was still gloomy, but Coney Island’s Astroland and Wonder Wheel parks opened on Sunday. Here are our exclusive pictures.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Sebastian Kahnert
Coney Island: The city’s controversial plan to redevelop Coney Island with new rides, attraction, hotels and housing got a dressing-down during a boisterous public meeting on Tuesday.
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By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper / Adrian Kinloch
Coney Island: Amusement operators will unleash the Cyclone and whirl the Wonder Wheel nearly a month early for what may well be the last summer on Coney Island as we know it.
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