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Crazy Coney Island news just keeps on coming. Less than a week after Mayor Bloomberg reached a $95.7 million deal to purchase 6.9 acres of the neighborhood's ailing amusement district from landowner Joe Sitt, the city has announced plans to bring ferry service back to the People's Playground, the Post reports. The city will use $3.2 million of federal transportation funds to study the feasibility of commuter ferry service from three possible dock locations: West Eighth Street near the New York Aquarium, the existing Steeplechase Pier near KeySpan Park, and in Coney Island Creek.
Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Paper notes that former Astroland owner Carol Albert is one of several amusement operators hoping to secure a lease as the city pushes to transform the downtrodden entertainment area into a year-round tourist destination. Though Albert sold her land to Sitt in 2006 for $30 million and closed her park last year when he refused to offer her another one-year extension, she said she's eager to bring her iconic amusements back to Coney Island. “Of course I’ll make a proposal,” said Albert, who still owns all of the Astroland rides except for the water flume (and the Astroland Rocket), and hopes to mix some of her older rides with other newer ones. "My heart is in Coney Island. Everybody knows that," she told the paper. "Plus, the name ‘Astroland,’ which is synonymous with Coney Island, is trademarked."
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So all of the drama and BS just to find out that yet another developer could not produce what he promised. Unbelievable! I hope that city is able go get their act together and do something out there that is better than what was there this last year. What a depressing collection of crap out there this last summer.
Will the New Astroland have any Bloomberg terminals?
Wow bloomberg more rich.
Over 3 million dollars just to STUDY THE FEASIBILITY of having ferry service?????!!!!!! Who the f*ck is getting paid that money???? That is beyond outrageous. What 'commuters' need to take a ferry from Coney Island? To where? Wall Street? Unbelievable.
There is nothing wrong with Coney Island that Jewish Lightening couldn't fix.
Present Day Coney Island --> Jewish Lightening ----> FEMA National Disaster Area designation ----> Eminent Domain ------> City unconditional sale to Thor ------> No longer a safe haven for scumbaggery.
why do they need to do a study about the ferry they had them in that area before it can be done.the study will probably delay it at least a year. why pay 3 miliion for a study put it toward the construction . it would be great for people who work in manhattan it is another form of transportation into the city and on the weekend would bring more people out to coney island . i don't see what the delay should be . they should get the engineers together and start working on the spot to put and the construction design .everything takes too damn long to get done in this city .
Her heart is in Coney Island until someone offers her $30 million. Carol Albert is - quite literally - a sell-out.
Let's get a few things straight. Carol Albert is hardly a sellout. Before selling, Carol went to the city with a year round plan for Astroland and the city rejected it. It was the city that brought in Joe Sitt pressuring the Alberts. Carol and her sick husband are elderly and her kids wanted no part of the business. Carol was willing to forge ahead but under increased pressure from the city and her family she sold the property. This is all documented on the Coney Island USA message board. She has been active throughout all of this turmoil, running The Cyclone speaking out against the current plans etc. If anyone deserves a shot, it is her. She ran Astroland for 46 years, many of those in very troubled times in this city. She stuck it out and employed thousands, many who worked for her their entire lives. She is Coney Island royalty. That being said unless she is willing to bring in many new rides, what is the point? To bring back Astroland with the same old same old would be pointless. We shouldn't have the better than nothing mentality. New and exciting rides is what the public demands including a new roller coaster. If she can't provide that, the contract should be given elsewhere.
will lola starr get her lease renewed? she's cute as hell!