Local activist group Save Coney Island is disappointed by the failure of the City Council’s Land Use Committee today to make necessary revisions to the City’s flawed rezoning plan for Coney Island. The City’s flawed plan will now proceed to the full City Council for a vote, without the needed revisions having been made to […]

The City Council’s Land Use Committee has a final opportunity tomorrow (Tues. 7/20) to recommend urgently needed revisions to the City’s flawed rezoning plan for Coney Island. The Land Use Committee met today and recessed without making any recommendations — a sign that the City has not yet done the necessary work to fix its […]

It is our understanding that the City Council Zoning and Land Use Committees are scheduled to vote tomorrow, Monday July 20th, on revisions to the Coney Island rezoning plan. WE NEED YOU TO ATTEND AND MAKE YOUR PRESENCE FELT! When:  9:30 am Where:  250 Broadway; 16th floor hearing room. PLEASE, GET THERE EARLY TO GET […]

Leaders of a half-dozen leading unions and community advocacy groups sent a letter to members of New York City Council expressing “deep concerns regarding the City’s plan to redevelop Coney Island.” They urged the City Council to change the plans in order to guarantee good jobs, create more affordable housing, improve public amenities for neighborhood […]

Today, The New York Times published the following letter from Save Coney Island spokesman Juan Rivero under the headline “Poor Plan for Coney Island”: “A Plan for Coney Island” (editorial, July 13) rightly emphasizes the need to revitalize one of New York City’s most iconic and beloved places. Especially welcome are the editorial’s suggestions for […]

The Bloomberg administration and the City Council are busy secretly negotiating the future of Coney Island with politically connected developers. But they won’t let Save Coney Island and other fans of the “People’s Playground” into the discussion. So Save Coney Island is taking its message directly to the people, with some help from Miss Cyclone […]

Fifteen prominent historians have signed onto an open letter urging the City Council to fix the City’s flawed rezoning plan for Coney Island. Signatories to the letter include Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Burns (“New York,” “Coney Island,” “The Civil War”) and Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace (“Gotham”), along with 12 other […]

Created with flickr slideshow. At 12pm on Wednesday, July 15th, Save Coney Island took to the streets to inform people about the City’s Plan for Coney Island. Fueled by passion and prepared with materials explaining the rezoning plan, we encouraged the sunbathers of Union Square to call their city councilperson right then and there. We […]

As New York City honored Jane Jacobs by renaming a portion of Hudson Street for her, a group of admirers — some sporting her distinctive eyewear in homage — showed up at today’s event to highlight the fact that the City’s current rezoning plan for Coney Island violates this urban visionary’s principles. As City Council […]

Ned Jacobs: ‘This rezoning plan for Coney Island does not appear to reflect  the urban values and planning principles she espoused’ Even as City officials gather today on Hudson Street in the West Village to honor urban visionary Jane Jacobs with a long-overdue street renaming, the Bloomberg administration is pushing a disastrous rezoning plan for […]