“The boardwalk is getting a lot less crowded on Coney Island. Beachgoers snubbed the iconic Brooklyn spot for the second summer in a row, Parks Department statistics show. Only 4.5 million people enjoyed Coney Island’s sand and surf this summer – a little more than half the 8.6 million visitors who came in 2007. And neither comes close to the booming summer of 2006, when more than 15.5 million people crowded onto the city’s most famous public beach.” Other city beaches were down too.–NYDN
Bklink: Coney Beach Crowds Down
September 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
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1 deborah matlack // Sep 2, 2008 at 10:44 am
Sounds like baloney to me. I’m a regular beachgoer and there were plenty of people at the beaches all summer. The City did not supply lifeguards for many of the bays west of the fishing pier and that may have discouraged beachgoers. I did not get to swim to the pier one time this summer because of the lack of lifeguards.
2 oneiroi // Sep 2, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Well, I mean they’ve been closing down more and more things down.
And I think last year a lot of people thought it was the last time then, and some may not have had the urge to do the whole “last time at old Coney” thing again. Causing a downturn.