Post Launches Brooklyn Blog, Dishes on Coney Theater
Rich Calder kicked off his inaugural day at the helm of The Post’s new Brooklyn blog with a scoop about how Marty’s now considering a retractable roof for his pet amphitheater project in Coney Island. While it’s expected to add more than $3 million to the project’s price tag. Apparently the addition of the roof…
Rich Calder kicked off his inaugural day at the helm of The Post’s new Brooklyn blog with a scoop about how Marty’s now considering a retractable roof for his pet amphitheater project in Coney Island. While it’s expected to add more than $3 million to the project’s price tag. Apparently the addition of the roof is in part a way to try to placate the concert-haters at the Sea Breeze Jewish Center across the street; many residents at the nearby high-rises are also against the plan. It is just too damn big, said Ida Sanoff, a former member of Brooklyn Community Board 13. The borough president and mayor are just not listening to the community because we have over 10,000 signatures saying we don’t want this. It may not matter, as the project is not currently slated for the ULURP process. Instead it would just need sign-off from the city’s Arts Commission. If all goes according to plan, work would start next spring on the playground and later next year on the theater.
Retractable Roof Could Cover Coney Amphitheater [NY Post]
the city needs a venue to compete with jones beach. coney island is the only choice. it even has public transportation.
PS It would be a good place for a stadium for the nets as well.
Shouldn’t that be “disses”?
Let the new blog come and join our little circle. Let them teach the unschooled what we already know – Bklyn rules!
What is a “pet ampitheater”? Is that a place where dogs and cats can watch concerts?
I want a space ship in *my* neighborhood! So not fair!
move atlantic yard/stadium to coney island. 2 birds 1 stone.
Frankly, I can’t blame the cranky anti-concert locals…we go to Marty’s concerts at Asser Levy every summer, usually (stupidly) by car, and the surrounding streets are absolutely FLOODED with people and traffic if it’s a popular act; they already absorb the traffic for the Aquarium and Keyspan. It gets pretty nuts on the sidestreets around there, esp. when the concerts end. Things around there are, as Pooh says, wedged in a great tightness.