As the City Council considers the proposed rezoning plan for Coney Island, The New York Times today in an editorial reiterated its support for much-needed improvements to the City’s plan: We like the Municipal Art Society’s idea of doubling the size of the amusement area and removing hotels from the south side of Surf Avenue. […]
The Bloomberg administration’s plan to shrink Coney Island’s amusement district and to block it off with four high-rise hotel towers is now before the City Council. There isn’t much time left to request changes to the City’s plan. If you want to save Coney Island, PLEASE CALL your City Council member TODAY (the sooner the […]
As spectators and competitive eaters gather in Coney Island to watch the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, a dark cloud hovers over this iconic eatery. The City’s flawed rezoning plan for Coney Island would endanger Nathan’s Famous and other historic structures in the area. The City’s plan shrinks Coney Island’s […]
The hearing got off to an inauspicious start — the same tired, thirty minute presentation of the City’s plan, complete with number juggling, fantastical job projections, and inaccurate assertions. The council members, who had heard the same exact pitch three months earlier, were not impressed. One after the other, they challenged the City on its […]
Public Hearing at City Council The Land-use subcommittee of the City Council will be holding a public hearing this week. Wednesday, July 1, 10:00 AM Council Chambers – City Hall (between Broadway and Park Row) It is very important that we attend. The City Council is scheduled to vote by the end of July and […]
Our legislative lunch was attended by representatives of 20 council-members and in some cases by council members themselves — evidence that the City’s flawed plan is an issue of city-wide concern. Our presentation discussed several dimensions of Coney Island amusements. CIUSA founder Dick Zigun spoke about the ruinous impact that the City’s plan would have […]
Throngs of marching mermaids sent the City a clear message at this year’s Mermaid Parade: Don’t shrink Coney Island! Fix your flawed rezoning plan! A few days earlier, Save Coney Island had sent some Mermaids into Manhattan to deliver a simple message to the City Planning Commission: Fix the City’s flawed rezoning plan! But the […]
Advocates for a vital Coney Island amusement district blasted the City Planning Commission’s decision today to approve — without meaningful revisions — a rezoning plan that would radically shrink the size of Coney Island’s famed amusement area and insert four soaring high-rises up to 27 stories tall into the heart of the amusement area. “This […]
Mermaids took to the streets of Lower Manhattan today to deliver some important information to members of the City Planning Commission in advance of their vote later this week on a flawed City rezoning plan for Coney Island. The Coney Island-loving mermaids took a break from preparations for next weekend’s Mermaid Parade to urge the […]
The New York Post covered the rally: Channel 12 was there, too.
