[Photo courtesy of Ruby’s Host/GL Flickr Pool]

Hunger striking Coney Island Mermaid Queen Savitri D. has been getting her share of press attention, including an appearance on the Brian Lehrer Show yesterday with the Coney Island History Project’s Charles Denson. She’s in her final hunger strike day today, as it was designed to draw attention to the “scoping” meeting for the revised Coney plan which takes place tonight. She’s been in the window of the ground floor of the Coney Island USA building with a laptop from which she has been broadcast live on webcam and has been chatting.