After years of talk, our beloved Astroland is officially gone forever as the City Planning Commission recently voted in favor of a plan to redevelop Brooklyn's Coney Island. NY1.com says, "...the 19-block plan creates 4,500 housing units as well as restaurants, hotels, shopping and performance spaces, and that the project will create 20,000 construction jobs and more than 6,000 permanent jobs." They also say that, "A 27-acre amusement and entertainment district with housing and hotels is also planned for the site." I'm sure the 'amusement park', if you can call it that, will be a commercialized, shitty mess, and will pale in comparison to what was once the home of NYC's only roller coaster, the famous Cyclone. No matter what, Coney Island will never be the same, nor will its annual Mermaid Parade, and everything else that came with it. Here is a look at the atrocities they have planned for the 'new' Coney Island:
Read the article at NY1 here:
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/100886/planning-commission-approves-coney-island-redevelopment/Default.aspx
After years of talk, our beloved Astroland is officially gone forever as the City Planning Commission recently voted in favor of a plan to redevelop Brooklyn's Coney Island. NY1.com says, "...the 19-block plan creates 4,500 housing units as well as restaurants, hotels, shopping and performance spaces, and that the project will create 20,000 construction jobs and more than 6,000 permanent jobs." They also say that, "A 27-acre amusement and entertainment district with housing and hotels is also planned for the site." I'm sure the 'amusement park', if you can call it that, will be a commercialized, shitty mess, and will pale in comparison to what was once the home of NYC's only roller coaster, the famous Cyclone. No matter what, Coney Island will never be the same, nor will its annual Mermaid Parade, and everything else that came with it. Here is a look at the atrocities they have planned for the 'new' Coney Island:
Read the article at NY1 here: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/100886/planning-commission-approves-coney-island-redevelopment/Default.aspx
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