The decrepit, rotting Coney Island boardwalk has claimed another victim. A woman in her sixties was walking on the rotting planks when her leg plunged through and she was injured. She is at least the eighth victim of the boardwalk in the last two year. Another lawsuit has been filed.–NYP

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It’s Sunday, which means we turn our attention once again to that sad-funny-strange world known as Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connections. We settled on this one because it proves that missed connections can happen anywhere and at any time, including watching Mayor Bloomberg talk about Coney Island zoning at Gargiulo’s Restaurant: Brooklyn Coney Island Revitalization last […]

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Yesterday, our friends at Kinetic Carnival, who consistently post superb items about Coney Island, made a fascinating comparison between Coney Island and Blackpool, England, a beach resort that has a lot more current success than our own waterfront amusement area. Here’s a YouTube vid showing Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach.

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Here’s a vid we came across featuring great vintage footage of Coney Island with Deathcab for Cutie’s Coney Island as the soundtrack. Why? Because we’re in the mood.

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We appeared on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC show yesterday to talk about Coney Island development. Here’s the embed in case you missed it and care to listen.

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In case you haven’t had your fill of Gowanus Lounge today, you can check out today on the Brian Lehrer Show. We’ll be on at 11:40AM, although the segment could be on at 11:40AM. We’ll be talking about one of our favorite topics: Coney Island redevelopment. The segment is called “Is the Future of Coney […]

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For those who want a quick look at the many recent iterations of Coney Island renderings and plans, we present a short, selective look: 1) Here’s the original Thor Equities Coney Island 1.0 (Beta) that was released two years ago. It’s the one with the blimps landing on the hotel roof. It was also called […]

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The top is the newly-released city vision of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in Coney Island. The bottom is one of the batch of renderings released a year ago by developer Joe Sitt. The juxtaposition of what one might call Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff’s Coney Island and developer Joe Sitt’s Coney Island is interesting, no? Related […]

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Before anyone starts picturing a Coney Island Tivoli Gardens, there are many things that need to be resolved, most significantly getting approval to de-map some city parkland so that it can go to a developer (hint: the name rhymes with, uh, hit). The “parkland” in question is the KeySpan ballpark parking lot (not that one […]

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Here’s a really nice video of black and white Coney still photos with Johnny Cash singing “In My Life” as the soundtrack. We found it very pretty and in keeping with our extra-strong Coney Island obsession this week.

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It’s November and it’s been chilly and wet. This week the city unveiled the new preliminary plan for Coney Island. What better thing to to watch than an old commercial for Astroland?

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Several thoughts come to mind in terms of yesterday’s major announcements regarding Coney Island’s future. The zoning changes, and the city’s decision to acquire land in the amusement district–engaging in a lucrative land swap with developer Joe Sitt–is the culmination of more than two years of public arguments and closed door negotiations. It would appear […]

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Here are some basic details about the Coney Island rezoning proposal that was released yesterday: It will allow for the development of 6.3 million square feet of space–approximately 4.9 million square feet of residential space, 460,000 square feet of retail space and 1.4 million square feet of “enclosed amusement, entertainment retail” in addition to “amusements […]

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Yesterday’s announcement of a Coney Island zoning proposal was the very first step of what will be a very, very long process of settling land use issues. The process will run through 2009. The first public meeting on the new Coney Island zoning proposal will be held on November 19 at Auditorium, Coney Island Hospital […]

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Here’s a short clip from the press conference after Mayor Bloomberg’s speech before the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce at Gargiulo’s in Coney Island yesterday, in which the Mayor and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff talk about cutting a deal with developer Joe Sitt.

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Mayor Bloomberg, Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden and Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff talked about traditional Coney Island attractions and about Shoot the Freak yesterday at the press conference they held at Gargiulo’s in Coney Island after the Mayor’s big Coney Island speech. Note the mayor’s reluctance to talk about “freaks” and the way he rolls his […]

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Here are links to a large number of stories about yesterday’s big Coney Island planning announcement by Mayor Bloomberg: Bloomberg Unveils Plan to Revitalize Coney Island, in Conflict With a Developer [NYT] Coney Details: Amusements in Middle, Tall on Edges [Curbed] Coney Island Bombshell: City Planning Takeover [Curbed] Coney Inches Further Into Its Future [Kinetic […]

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These are the days for Coney Island Creek. There are a lot of photos around the internet and interest in its history. To prove the point, the famous Coney “Yellow Submarine” is profiled today, with ample commentary from historian Charles Denson.–NYT

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Mayor Bloomberg made his long awaited speech about Coney Island today, unveiling the city’s vision of Coney Island zoning. It did not disappoint. The biggest headline is that the city wants to acquire all the land between the Cyclone and KeySpan Park, rezone it as a park and lease the land to an amusement park […]

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By this time tomorrow, everyone should have a very good sense of what the city has in mind for Coney Island and what, if any, deals have been cut with developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities. Significant Event Number One will take place at Noon at Gargiulo’s Restaurant when Mayor Bloomberg is scheduled to speak […]

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This is not in Brooklyn, but we found it on the Coney Island Message Board under the headline “What if Coney Did This?“, which creates a (tenuous) Brooklyn angle. As it turns out, the Chinese are building a mind-bogglingly big ferris wheel in Beijing that will be 682 feet tall and carry 1,920 passengers. By […]

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The photo above and the one below are from an exhibition called “Goodbye Coney Island?” at the Brooklyn Museum. It consists of more than fifty photos from the museum’s collection and “traces traces the evolution of this fabled part of New York over the past 125 years. Coney Island has undergone many transformations since it […]

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The Great Coney Island Mystery of what the Bloomberg Administration will allow to be built and where it can go up, should be solved shortly. In the meantime, the guessing game continues. Yesterday, City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden–who has famously traded words with developer Joe Sitt over the future of Coney Island–said some interesting things […]

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The Coney Island USA Art Auction is taking place tonight at Max Fish, which is located at 178 Ludlow St. It runs from 6-9pm, with bidding closing at 8:30. Bidding tickets are $20 or free to participating artists and Coney Island USA “Big Spender” members. Proceed will go toward the Coney Island USA phase 1 […]

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In case you missed this over at Kinetic Carnival or Curbed yesterday, we find this rendering of a possible future for Coney Island utterly riveting in a bad car crash sort of way. We understand that it from a scheme that is no longer the working one, yet the scale of the new development and […]

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