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Save Coney Island, a group dedicated to the revitalization of Coney Island as an amusement destination, has released a new rendering (see attached) envisioning the Bank of Coney Island as a new, Bowery-Ballroom-style event and music space named “The Banker’s Ballroom.” The Bank of Coney Island was built by the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce […]
We are very excited to be co-sponsoring a panel discussion hosted by CUNY on the role that Coney’s extraordinary past could play in its future redevelopment. The panel will be moderated by Pulitzer-prize winning historian Mike Wallace, and the following speakers are confirmed to present: David Malmuth, former Disney vice-president and developer of Times Square’s […]
Don’t miss the chance to join us in our walking tour of historic Coney Island! The guided tour will cover all the historic buildings along Surf Avenue, as well as some of Coney’s existing landmarks. We will have historic pictures so you can see what the buildings once were; and a few renderings illustrating how […]
The online edition of Preservation Magazine, a publication of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has a lengthy report on the fight to save historic buildings in the Coney Island amusement district currently threatened with demolition by Thor Equities The article quotes Save Coney Island spokesman Juan Rivero: “The notion that these buildings couldn’t be […]
Don’t miss the chance to join us in our walking tour of historic Coney Island! The guided tour will cover all the historic buildings along Surf Avenue, as well as some of Coney’s existing landmarks. We will have historic pictures so you can see what the buildings once were; and a few renderings illustrating how […]
