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The Coney Island Odyssey

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Bloomberg’s Coney Island Odyssey

It’s been a year and a half since Mayor Bloomberg unveiled his plan to remake the storied amusement district of Coney Island, and some time before Aug. 7, according to the Department of City Planning, the City Council has to take an up-or-down vote on the proposal. (I wrote about it this week, focusing on the area's main landlord, Joe Sitt.) Getting to this point has been a fight on all fronts—there’s general consensus that the area needs revitalization, but just how to do it is the issue—complete with songs, sermons from a faux preacher, a hunger strike and an intransigent landlord.

Going into the final stretch before the plan passes in some form (or fails, though that’s unprecedented), here’s a look at some of the fight's key players.

-By Eliot Brown

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