[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool]

A part of the Coney Island Boardwalk running from W. 12 Street to Stillwell Avenue is finally being repaired so that people no longer face injury by tripping or falling through the rotting, loose boards. This is an interesting view under the boardwalk, as they say, which will no longer be made of boards but of recycled plastic. It is one of the very, very few positive developments that one can report right now for summer 2009, assuming the job is finished on scheduled. Odd: 50-50.