The long-awaited death of Coney Island looks like it may finally be at hand, and there’s plenty of blame to go around: Coney Island in winter always feels desolate, but this year the spooky whistle the wind makes as it … Continue reading
I revisit some of the small business operators who were threatened by downtown Brooklyn redevelopment last year, and find that many have now been forced out entirely: Jeff Gargiulo’s e-mail address still says “BagelGuys,” but he’s no longer a bagel … Continue reading
More on the great Brooklyn supermarket showdown, this time with more thoughts on what the conflict means for hopes of a livable city: The scene on Fort Greene’s Myrtle Avenue on Thursday was certainly bursting with cheap irony: John Catsimatidis, … Continue reading
I report from downtown Brooklyn on the supermarket king who tore down a neighborhood’s only supermarket to make way for luxury condos. (Also: pictures of cute kids!) It’s undoubtedly not how John Catsimatidis, the billionaire Gristede’s owner and rumored 2009 … Continue reading
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center site is hideously behind schedule, but the bigger problem is what the city will end up with when it’s finally done: Last week’s Port Authority report on progress (or lack thereof) at ground … Continue reading
A look ahead to Saturday’s Mermaid Parade, which itself is looking ahead to Tuesday’s public hearing on the future of Coney Island: Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade isn’t usually a place for broad political messages, except when reclaiming pasties as … Continue reading
It’s hard to find much to add to a story that begins with a young couple trying to evict 15 families so they can turn their apartment building into a mansion, but I give it the old college try anyway: … Continue reading
A brief item on the Voice site on a Coney Island fixture quitting the local development board in protest of the city’s revised plans for redeveloping the famed amusement strip: Six weeks after Mayor Bloomberg abruptly revamped his Coney Island … Continue reading
In which I consider the latest rumors that the New Jersey Nets could be headed to Newark instead of Brooklyn, and whether that might not be best for Brooklyn in the long run: The recent news that a group of … Continue reading
Another not-entirely-accurate headline by the crack editorial team at Metro NY – the issue with Coney Island is that the city is letting developers’ will take precedence over its own, which is symptomatic of a deeper problem: Over the past … Continue reading