Group Sues City to Block Coney Redevelopment Plan
Taking a page out of the playbook of Atlantic Yards opponents, a group called Save Coney Island filed a suit yesterday to try to block the city’s redevelopment plan for Coney Island, charging that the amusement area will be too small and that the city failed to perform a required environmental impact assessment. As you…
Taking a page out of the playbook of Atlantic Yards opponents, a group called Save Coney Island filed a suit yesterday to try to block the city’s redevelopment plan for Coney Island, charging that the amusement area will be too small and that the city failed to perform a required environmental impact assessment. As you may recall, the city has agreed to purchase 6.9 acres of land from Joe Sitt for $95 million and is currently seeking an operator of a temporary park there. A spokesman for the group described the city’s plan as “squeezing [the amusement area] into a narrow strip of land and blocking it off with a wall of high-rises.” The unofficial mayor of Coney Island, Dick Zigun, is not backing the suit even though he agrees with the gist of it. “Any business that exists in Coney Island desperately wants to see redevelopment happen immediately. I would like to see ground broken… yesterday,” he told the Daily News. “I’m not looking to complicate things so that nothing happens.”
Group Files Suit Against Coney Island Redevelopment [NY Daily News]
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Just as with AY, it’s a shame that a small band of crazies are so hell-bent on stopping progress.
“I’m not looking to complicate things so that nothing happens.”
Telling words.
Until the Courts get serious about punishing abuse of process, these type of things will continue. And since endless litigation is good for the Courts main constituents – Lawyers – this will continue forever.
maybe DDDB should consider that.
The unofficial mayor of Coney Island, Dick Zigun, is not backing the suit even though he agrees with the gist of it. “Any business that exists in Coney Island desperately wants to see redevelopment happen immediately. I would like to see ground broken…yesterday,” he told the Daily News. “I’m not looking to complicate things so that nothing happens.”
100% agree. It will only help the area, not ruin it.
i cant picture in my brain what 6 acres looks like. is it big or small?
anyway, wow, i would LOVE to live in a high rise building that overlooks an amusement park. that sounds so fun!!
*rob*