“Gone Country for Coney”, a benefit for Save Coney Island, is galloping towards Brooklyn this Saturday, January 30th.  Jump on the bandwagon!  Join us in DUMBO at Galapagos Art Space for an all-day country/bluegrass Jamboree! Five bands of the city’s best pickers and plunkers starting at 3:00 pm and going until 9:30 pm. Animal Pharm […]

More than 50 Coney Island community members gathered on Thursday January 21 for a meeting hosted by grassroots activist group Save Coney Island. At the meeting, which took place at St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Coney Island, Save Coney Island activists updated attendees on the group’s efforts to restore Coney Island as the world’s […]

Grassroots activist group Save Coney Island today congratulated the Bloomberg administration on finding an amusement operator for Coney Island ahead of the summer season. NY1 reported today that the city has selected ride manufacturer Zamperla USA as Coney Island’s new amusement park operator. Other companies, including Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Steel Pier, had […]

Thursday, January 21st at 7:30 pm we are having our next strategy meeting in Coney Island.  We will be discussing the latest on our efforts to landmark key historic buildings; our campaign to prevent the permanent reduction of the size of the amusement area; the different initiatives underway to bring bring back amusements for a […]

On Tuesday Save Coney Island served the City with a lawsuit seeking to overturn its flawed rezoning plan for Coney Island. It is not a step we took lightly. Everyone agrees Coney Island needs to be revitalized. We strongly support some of the City’s recent actions, like purchasing land for amusements and issuing a request-for-proposals […]

The rain couldn’t keep the eager audience away from our evening of short films screened at the cozy Black Horse Pub on Wednesday, December 2nd. The talented John Salvatore, a Brooklyn filmmaker and Save Coney Island volunteer, curated the Siren Screen Series, which featured 10 different shorts from 10 different directors. (Click here for the […]

Grassroots activist group Save Coney Island announced today that it had filed a lawsuit challenging the Bloomberg administration’s rezoning of Coney Island’s amusement area. Several Coney Island residents and amusement district workers and performers joined Save Coney Island as plaintiffs. The suit was filed Wednesday, November 25 at New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan […]

THE SIREN SCREEN SERIES at the Black Horse Pub Wednesday, Dec. 2 The Black Horse Pub 568 5th Avenue @ 16th Street Park Slope, Brooklyn 8pm  – $10 cover *All profits go to support Save Coney Island! Save Coney Island presents the Siren Screen Series and throws the film world into upheaval with our own […]

In response to today’s news of the City of New York’s purchase of seven acres of land in Coney Island from developer Thor Equities, grassroots activist group Save Coney Island issued the following statement from its spokesman, Juan Rivero: The City’s purchase today of seven acres of land for a permanent, open-air amusement area is […]

Calling all Coney lovers! We have an important meeting this Monday! Meet in Freddy’s back room from 7-9 pm this Monday, November 9th for an important meeting about our post-rezoning-vote strategies  to preserve and expand Coney Island’s amusement district.