To Boost Its Coney Island Plan, Bloomberg Administration Buses in Supporters for City Council Hearing
City spends $1,360 to bus in supporters of its Coney Island plan to a City Council Read More
Coney Island Development Corporation
Be ‘Very, Very Scared’ of Coney Island Without Rezoning, City Warns
Back in the late spring, the city added a few new slides to its Coney Island redevelopment plan PowerPoint, presumably to assuage critics, that showed successively how the core amusement area has shrunk decade after decade to become just a pitiful shadow of what it once was. With the city's planned rezoning, the pitch Read More
Brooklyn Senator Steps Up Quest to Halt City’s Coney Plans
The Bloomberg administration seems to have met a foe in its plans to redevelop Coney Island. And no, we’re not talking about Joe Sitt, the owner of the bulk of the prime amusement-area land that the city wants to take (the city has offered a land swap).
Rather, the biggest resistance so Read More
Sitt Buckles Into Coney Rollercoaster
Joe Sitt, a 42-year-old developer who has bought up Coney Island’s core, got stung a few weeks ago. The city’s planning director, Amanda Burden, knocked the economic engine that’s supposed to drive the whole thing—condominiums—months before the official rezoning process had even begun. Luxury condominiums, Ms. Burden said at a Feb. 14 Crain’s New York Read More
