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July 11, 2009
This is the Coney Island the Bloomberg Administration Doesn't Want the City to Have
Noticing New York
The focus of this blog entry is the release of images by the Municipal Art Society (MAS) that clearly show the problems with a proposed city plan for redevelopment of Coney Island. Also, MAS's "Atlantic Lots" images are recalled.
Not only are MAS’s images informative but MAS has previously been marvelously prescient in producing urban development image projects. MAS was right on target with its "Atlantic Lots" website. That website, predicting that the Atlantic Yards megaproject (yet another Bloombergian mega-vision project) would become just a generic arena surrounded by parking lots, furnished images that have turned out to be exactly right. Right now, Forest City Ratner, the developer proposed to get a monopoly over a swath of Brooklyn, just wants to build a crude airplane hanger style arena. Notwithstanding, FCR would get a blight-inducing ultra-long-term, low-cost exclusive option on many times the acreage needed for that arena. That extra acreage is where FCR would get to put parking lots for perhaps as long as 30 or 40 years. And the developer has already been busy tearing the neighborhood down.
NoLandGrab: Like Atlantic Yards, the redevelopment of Coney Island has not received nearly the attention it should be getting from mainstream media, so you may not be aware of the plan that will likely destroy Coney Island as an amusement destination. Click on the above link and take a look at this video, Don't Kill Coney! Fix the Plan!: A Friendly PSA from Coney Island's 'Mayor', to come up to speed quickly on this issue.
Posted by steve at July 11, 2009 6:52 AM