City Shows Sitt Who's Boss in Coney Island
There’s bound to be lots on this in the papers in the morning, but Curbed is reporting that the midday press conference on the future of Coney Island just concluded. The basic message: Michael Bloomberg, not Joe Sitt, wears the pants in South Brooklyn. Frustrated at how Sitt’s Thor Equities has pursued its plans to…
There’s bound to be lots on this in the papers in the morning, but Curbed is reporting that the midday press conference on the future of Coney Island just concluded. The basic message: Michael Bloomberg, not Joe Sitt, wears the pants in South Brooklyn. Frustrated at how Sitt’s Thor Equities has pursued its plans to redevelop the area, the mayor’s office has decided it will designate the area between the Cyclone and Keyspan Park as park land and take it from Thor (by eminent domain, if necessary) to hand over to an amusement park operator. Grabby, grabby! In return, Thor will be allowed to build a mixed-used development on the existing Keyspan Park parking lot. Waddya think of them apples?
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Coney Island Bombshell: City Planning Takeover [Curbed]
Too bad out Mayor doesn’t have the balls to save Brooklyn from crap like the Atlantic Yards.
The Atlantic Yards will be Coney Island once Coney Island is built.
GO SITT GO!!!!!
Coney Island will be worthless once AY is built.
Brownstoner, we know what your feelings are about eminent domain, and we agree with you to to some degree, but in this instance we sure are glad that there is something called eminent domain to save Brooklyn from developers like Joe Sitt who could easily turn some of Brooklyn’s best real estate swaths into more Fulton Street malls and big box stores. We sure are happy that we have a mayor who has the balls to save Brooklyn from more crap like that, and would encourage more use of land grabbing to this end.
Does this mean that the Mermaid Parade is back?
are you guys and curbed *trying* to post the exact same stories today???
Wonder if DDDB is going to protest this threatened use of Eminent Domain????
FSRG
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