A mailer from State Sen. Carl Kruger talked about the Coney Island meeting that he disrupted in November. It says “Score one for the good guys” about the meeting that bused in protesters paid for with his campaign funds shut down. “Considering that the incident seemed like a campaign stunt all along, it’s not surprising […]

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Check out this excellent vid that we came across thanks to the Kinetic Carnival, which covers the Coney Island waterfront like no one else. If you’re not familiar with Kinetic Carnival head over to check them out and definitely add them to your RSS feed. Coney Island 12.31.07 from AtmInside on Vimeo.

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For fun (or academic credit), one can always make an intricate sand castle/art project on the beach in Coney Island in the dead of winter. Like the one shown in this vid, for instance.

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Can the city afford its ambitious Coney Island plan? With city budget gaps looming, the future of projects that don’t already have some money in the bank could be up in the air.–Kinetic Carnival

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“Could a Coney Express ever begin zipping passengers from Manhattan’s connecting point in a bee line to Coney Island? At Monday’s Coney Island Development Corporation meeting CIDC president, Lynn Kelly mentioned the need for an express line to Coney. For many years one of the main reason’s Coney Island could not so easily thrive as […]

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One of the interesting things about the Coney Island meetings this week is an organization that is calling itself Coney Island CLEAR. A poster on the Coney Island Message Board named Tricia made this observation from the Monday meeting: The other interesting thing was a lot of people wearing shirts that said “Coney Island Clear” […]

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Sen. Carl Kruger managed to cause quite a stir at the kickoff meeting on the Coney Island plan on Monday night by repeatedly referring to it as “Brighton Beach,” and drawing loud boos from the audience. The Senator, who Coney Island critics derisively call “Krazy Kruger,” created the biggest stir at the meeting and was […]

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GL reader Eric Provost, who most recently sent us a set of photos of the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Prospect Park, emailed us these gorgeous shots of a winter sunset in Coney Island. The end of the day is especially pretty there this time of year.

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Last night’s meeting on the city’s Coney Island plan worked out to be uneventful, except for a long and rambling statement by State Sen. Carl Kruger and some outbursts by an audience member described as drunk. There was a moderate turnout that didn’t come close to filling a large auditorium and promised busloads of protesters […]

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Will tonight’s first public information session about the city Coney Island Redevelopment proposals be about public policy or political theater? We’re hoping that it will be mostly about the former, but fearing there is a very good chance that it will be significantly about the latter. Both sides appear ready to pack the meetings with […]

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With Coney Island in the news this week because of theatrics at the public presentation of the city’s proposed zoning changes and plans, we thought we’d turn our attention again to the subject of the disgraceful condition of the boardwalk itself. We’ve focused on it from time to time over the last two years, and […]

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Here’s the WNBC segment aired yesterday called “Open House Coney Island” about our favorite Brooklyn waterfront destination and its future. It was posted to YouTube by “Rapid T. Rabbit” on the Coney Island Message Board and we found it very early this morning thanks to Kinetic Carnival. It’s worth a quick viewing.

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Here are some vids posted to the YouTube since New Year’s Day of the Coney Island Polar Bears January 1, 2008 swim.

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Coney Island USA’s David Gratt is spreading the word that State Sen. Karl Kruger, who used his campaign funds to bus in people that shut down the first public information session about the Coney Island plan, is planning an encore. He will be bring protestors to the new sessions, the first of which is on […]

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Someday, there will be a new pavilion at the base of Coney Island’s Parachute Jump and a Steeplechase Plaza around it, fronting on the boardwalk. The “when” is up in the air, given that the project will probably extend past the end of the Bloomberg Administration, but it continues to move forward. Yesterday, the city […]

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Those that have been waiting for a public information session about the Coney Island plan since the original meeting was shut down because of people bused in by State Sen. Carl Kruger (paid for with his campaign funds) will get their chance next week. The Coney Island Development Corp. will be having sessions for the […]

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[Photo via The Great Fredini/Coney Island Message Board] No, we don’t note every appearance of Monk Parrots in a new spot in Brooklyn. But, when someone posts pics of the birds in Coney Island, we think it’s post-worthy. This picture was posted by The Great Fredini on the Coney Island Message Board. He wrote: “We […]

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There is something infectious about Amos Wengler’s unofficial Coney anthem, Save Coney Island. The video is freshly posted on YouTube and we think it’s a lot of fun. Have a look below.

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[Photo courtesy of Andrew Goldsmith/flickr] [Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] [Photo courtesy of ekavet/flickr] [Photo courtesy ConeyHOP/flickr & Kinetic Carnival] While the members of the Coney Island Polar Bears Club take dips in the water at Coney Island all winter long, the annual New Year’s Day swim is the one that attracts swarms of coverage and […]

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2008 Polar Bear Swim [YouTube]

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Politics makes strange bedfellows, and the most bizarre of all may turn out to be the odd alliances forged by the Bloomberg’s Coney redevelopment plan and its effort to dislodge developer Joe Sitt from the amusement district and to swap the parking lot next to KeySpan Park for the developer’s property. The rub, of course, […]

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Things may be literally quiet in Coney Island except for the barking of guard dogs, but there is activity to report. Entrepreneur Lola Staar, who was almost forced from her boardwalk shop last year by developer Joe Sitt, has sent out an email announcement saying that she will be opening a “new boutique in Coney […]

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In contrast to last winter, when developer Joe Sitt’s bulldozers were working to demolish a square block of the amusement district, Coney Island is very, very quiet this winter. The land that Mr. Sitt cleared last winter is empty and surrounded by a blue fence. Several of the buildings he owns remain boarded up, adding […]

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A couple of old timers recall Coney Island. Totally worth watching.

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Check out a new website produced by College of William & Mary students called Coney Island and the Modernization of America. “The website is a great source for those interested in leaning about the history of Coney Island. Their sources page is probably the only Internet site where one can find most books and articles […]

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