Do I really have to tell everyone what's going on?
Coney Island is getting fucked. The developers that have bought in are planning on dropping ugly ass hotels and malls in our playground and much like the price of gas, the price of smokes, the price of milk and the constant delays on New York Transit we can't do anything about it. Or can we?
1. Visit the Coney Island message boards, sign up and chime in (positively/constructively) often - there is power in numbers. It also helps you to find out what's up.
2. Write to/call the following people and tell them we don't need another mall - we need rides, cotton candy, fried clams, funnel cakes and games.
Rachel Belsky, New York City Economic Development Corporation rbelsky@nycedc.com, Telephone: (212) 312–3718, Fax: (212) 312–3989
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Hall, New York, NY 10007
Phone 311 (or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC)
Fax (212) 788-2460, E-MAIL:http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
City Council President Christine Quinn, and your City Council Member.
http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml
3. Publicly denounce Dominic Recchia - he's become a cheerleader for Thor Equities - the evil developers behind this vile plot to further destroy our fine city. Anytime I see a politician take sides with big business over his constituency I smell a rat. Make sure he knows he works for you not Thor.
4. Fuck the Post - recently the New York Post ousted Dick Zigun - who runs Coney Island U.S.A. for crashing in his office at Coney. This could endanger their grant status and get Dick fined and as you might know Dick isn't a rich man. Either way, at the end of the day I don't think tax payers gave a shit that Dick slept in his office. The timing is dubious as Dick recently denounced THOR Equities and the CIDC - the organization created by the city to further help ruin your summer fun.
5. Visit the Save Coney Island website http://www.myspace.com/saveconeyisland for the facts.
6. Email Save.Coney@gmail.com to join the mailing list for news of upcoming protests, petitions and more!
7. Write to the following companies that have been rumored to be taking space in the upcoming Coney Island mall and tell them what a terrible idea it will be for them to open stores there
So far we hear Nike and Toys R Us.
8. Here's my contribution to this - we should start a myspace/facebook/blog campaign supporting Dick - our slogan can be - "So you think the resident of Coney Island, Brooklyn and New York City can't make you listen to what we want for Coney - then you don't know DICK!" Hopefully if we get enough play the Daily News will make it a headline.
9. Stay informed and don't be a fair weather supporter. This battle doesn't end when the Summer is over. Keep the struggle alive in the cold months so you can enjoy Coney in the warm ones.
Think to yourself - how many stories do I have about Coney Island? How many good times? Was the batting cage your thing or the go carts? The Cyclone? The Sideshow? Ruby's? Shoot the Freak? Whatever the case it will all be going away. You are watching you neighborhoods change into condo havens every day - your local bodegas are all Starbucks now - every neighborhood that had any character (East Village, LES, Hells Kitchen, Williamsburg) has become a post-college town playground for douchey transplant morons with trust funds and too much free time and now we have the Coney Island mall staring us in the face. Aren't you ready to draw a line in the sand yet?
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