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November 19, 2010
Open & Closed: Say Hello to The Darby; Goodbye to Marfa
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Cooper 35 Asian Pub, known for its $3 cocktails, will be torn down in the coming months to make room for a new Joe Sitt high-rise. [NYU News via Grub Street] CB Holding Corp. has filed for Cha ... More >>
News
May 25, 2010
Coney Island's Grand Past and Grim Future
Requiem for a dreamland
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Actual Honest-to-God New Rides Coming to Coney in May, New Coasters in 2011
Photo by Neil deMauseIn what's becoming a bit of a Coney Island tradition, City Hall officials shlepped out to Brooklyn in a slushstorm today to make the long-rumored announcement that the Italian firm Zamperla has been tapped to open a new amusement park in Coney to replace the dearly depart ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Sitt, City Close Coney Island Deal: About 7 Acres for Us, $95.6 Million for Him
Developer Joe Sitt and his Thor Equitiies closed that deal with the city they set up in November that gives New York 6.9 acres of beachfront property and Sitt $95.6 million which, as Neil de Mause earlier reported, means he's already made back his investment and still has six acres of Coney t ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2009
City Buys Sitt Land, But Coney Future Still Hazy
It was, Mayor Bloomberg said more than once, "a day people probably thought never would arrive." After more than a year of negotiations and at least one false positive, the mayor and developer Joe Sitt took to the Blue Room podium today to announce that Sitt's Thor Equities has agreed to sel ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2009
City to Buy 7 Acres of Coney Boardwalk Property from Sitt
It's long been assumed that developer Joe Sitt, who's been letting his vast holdings in Coney Island go all to hell, has been holding out for the best price he can get from the city, which has repeatedly shown interest in buying it. Today, a breakthough: it's reported that New York will pay $95.6 ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2009
Citi Field Crumbling, Cyclones' Attendance Fall Bring Perverse Comfort to Mets Fans
The New York Post says Citi Field is falling apart: "Huge signs have collapsed, outfield drains have clogged and there are numerous faulty air-conditioning systems and electrical outlets." Also Jerry Seinfeld's luxury box was flooded and is riddled with mold, so it's an ill wind etc. And the Mets' ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
In Interview, Bloomberg Praises Gehry, Approves Parking Tickets
That Bloomberg interview referred to in yesterday's papers is out now in the Brooklyn Paper. In it, the Mayor continues to defend the Atlantic Yards project against what he calls "this small group of people" who oppose it, and to pine after the Frank Gehry design that might have been. With a modish ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
Live! Coney Island Council Vote!
Photo (cc) MapDork. Against all odds, there's actually working (sort of) WiFi in the city council chamber, so I'm going to attempt to liveblog today's final vote on the city's Coney Island rezoning plan. The council's land use committee gave its preliminary blessing last week, so the last ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Freak Show Man Will Sue Over Puppy's Amputated Fifth Leg; Demands Reattachment
The amputation of that five-legged puppy's fifth leg has not ended her usefulness to Coney freak show manager John Strong, who says he had a deal to buy and exhibit the monstrosity but saw his dream crumble when a nice lady bought the puppy instead, named it Lily, and had a vet remove the extraneous ... More >>
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July 22, 2009
Council Caves on Coney; Sitt-to-City Deal Still in Works?
Photo (cc) Spuz. The way things are going, the never-ending Coney Island rezoning process is going to have more "final hearings" than Astroland had last days. Originally scheduled to meet last week to weigh in on the shape of Coney's future, the city council's land use committee instead repeatedl ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2009
Joe Sitt Weeps for Coney; Land Use Committee Considers Plan Tomorrow
We are grateful to Brownstoner for tipping us to the Crain's New York Business article on Coney Island developer Joe Sitt, his habit of buying up city properties and flipping them for profits, and his attempts to do the same with his Coney holdings, though he tells Crain's (with tears in his eyes!) ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2009
Coney Island Update: Preservationists Protest, Sitt Professes Love for Astrotower
This week the Save Coney Island crew gave a City Hall press conference to protest the proposed shrinkage of Coney's 60 acres of amusement to 12. ("When properly programmed, 12 acres is a sufficient space," says the New York City Economic Development Corporation.) They brought the usual suspects, in ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2009
Coney's Giant Rat Stays In Out of the Rain
Joe Sitt's much-hyped Festival By The Sea, famed of story and subway ads, was supposed to have its grand opening this weekend, but it was called on account of rain. Or alleged rain: Total precipitation for Friday and Saturday was less than a tenth of an inch, so skeptics will be forgiven for wonderi ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2009
Ruby's Bar on Coney Opens on Easter
Ruby's, the big old boardwalk bar at Coney Island, its walls lined with photos of vintage Coney scenes, its jukebox stocked with vintage tunes, and its men's room graced by a vintage bog, will open on Easter Sunday. There was some question of it closing down -- Ruby's has had some trouble with the a ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2009
Coney: New Dig, Times Dis, Cyclone Opens Sunday
Kinetic Carnival looks at Joe Sitt's big dig at Stillwell Avenue and the Boardwalk at Coney Island and wonders what's up. Captain Nemo's readers speculate: new supports for the Boardwalk? Tents? A "Dream Land Amusement Park" is announced by lamppost sign for part of the blighted property. Gowanus' ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2009
Circus Coming to Coney Island?
Kinetic Carnival looks at Joe Sitt's big dig at Stillwell Avenue and the Boardwalk at Coney Island and wonders what's up. Captain Nemo's readers speculate: new supports for the Boardwalk? Tents? A "Dream Land Amusement Park" is announced by lamppost sign for part of the blighted property. Gowanus' ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
Coney Community Board Votes Yes to Rezoning Plan, No to Plan's Actual Details
Photo by Neil deMause It took four years, but the fate of Coney Island's future finally began the deliberative phase tonight, with a meeting of Brooklyn's Community Board 13 in the packed, sweltering auditorium of Coney Island Hospital to vote on the rezoning plan put forward last April by the Bloom ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2009
Coney Fans Offer New Plans
image (cc) Mark Kehoe A petting zoo for cloned animals? A giant apple orchard? A freak show with yuppies in a cage? Some futuristic-looking NeoGothic towers? When a group of people gathered in Our Lady of Solace Church on Mermaid Avenue last night to discuss the future of Coney Island, the lines ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2009
Thor Equities Not Done Ruining Coney Island
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2008
Astroland Going, Going...
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2008
Astroland, 1962-2008
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2008
Au Revoir, Coney Island
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2008
Astroland Lease Renewal Going Down to Wire. . . Again
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2008
"Save Coney" Protestors Rain on City's Beach-Opening Parade
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2008
Locals Fear City Will Destroy Coney Island In Order To Save It
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2008
Coney Est Mort, Vive Coney!
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2007
Bloomberg's Coney Gambit Leaves Thor Up Sitt Creek
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2007
Brooklyn Residents Chant 'Save Our Neighborhood, Yo'
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2007
Astroland Looking Like History
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2007
Last Ride at Astroland
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2007
Rally Sunday to Save Astroland
Having turned the swaths of Coney Island under his control into wreckage, Thor Equities developer Joe Sitt is gunning for more: now he's offering $91 million for the three acres upon which the Thunderbolt ride sits. (The Post story contains the fun fact that the 'Bolt is owned by the guy who also ow ... More >>
News
August 21, 2007
Labor Day Pains
Will this be the winter of Coney's discontent?
Blogs
August 9, 2007
Will City Land Swap Make Coney Squabble Vanish?
Will this be the winter of Coney's discontent?
News
July 24, 2007
Hot Dog With Relish
Cyclones put Markowitz on a bobblehead doll. Now he'll pop up even more.
Blogs
June 18, 2007
Thor Throws a Coney Island Curveball
Cyclones put Markowitz on a bobblehead doll. Now he'll pop up even more.
News
May 22, 2007
On the Outs in Brooklyn
The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate
Blogs
April 30, 2007
Sitt Hits the Fans: When Coney Gets Tough, the Going Gets Weird
The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate
NYC Life
April 3, 2007
Coney Island's Last Ride? The Bulldozer!
Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you

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