Fight to Landmark the Home of Nathan's
Preservation of Coney Island is such a charged topic that it has practically become an official Brooklyn sport. The next round in the game is one resident’s attempt to save the Nathan’s hotdog building by granting it landmark status and forcing developments to take root elsewhere. The petition, launched on Sunday, had 51 supporters at…
Preservation of Coney Island is such a charged topic that it has practically become an official Brooklyn sport. The next round in the game is one resident’s attempt to save the Nathan’s hotdog building by granting it landmark status and forcing developments to take root elsewhere. The petition, launched on Sunday, had 51 supporters at the time of this post, with a goal of 50,000. Note also that PetitionSpot, the site hosting the petition, has another, similar petition here, with 34 supporters and a goal of 100,000. Do you think the Nathan’s building is worth the fight? For a little history, check out the Flickr posting of the above photo from Wallyg.
To me, this place is a shrine, as worthy of preservation as any single NYC landmark you care to mention. I signed the petition.
When I worked in Secaucus a few years ago, the Weinermobile was often parked outside of our building at the Harmon Meadow corporate center. I never saw anyone drive it, or found out exactly why it was parked there so often.
May I add… I’ve ridden in the Wiener Mobile and it’s awesome!
Biff — you’re thinking of Slim Pickens
Darn, what a faux pas. You’re right GHB. Regardless, I want that role. I’ll wear my new faux-hipsterish straw hat in place of Slim’s cowboy hat.
Biff, it’s Slim Pickens who rides the bomb
Ummm… Nathan’s is already basically “glossy, shiny, slick” on the inside. Really the only part anyone sees.
When is the last time you even noticed the outside of the the Nathan’s building? The inside looks like a mall restaurant.
So ridiculous. Do you really think a new building (and no one says a new building is even being considered) would change the fabric of Coney Island!? I think it’s funny that Coney Island has to be shabby to be acceptable. Maybe they should stop raking the beach as well so kids can step on some of New York’s other “flavor.”
Snark, please please please cast me in the lead role so I can be the guy riding on top of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile with a maniacal smile as it heads towards Nathan’s a la Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove.
In my film treatment of Brownstoner, Nathans’s is destroyed when the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile crashes into it.
How can this not already be land-marked? Go ahead, destroy history for some ugly new poorly built money grab. Generations have been able to enjoy this place and now, in some fight over large amounts of money that the earners will never be able to spend in their lifetime, future generations will never enjoy it. People just can’t get their heads around the fact that they are only on this planet for a limited amount of time and that their actions have long lasting effects on what happens later. You can’t take it with you man, and no one will remember you when you’re gone.