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Member Items Still About Who You Know
Even in these days of increased transparency when it comes to the City Council’s appropriation of member items, the process remains, unavoidably, one that rewards people who know people. For example,...
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Fate of Crumbling Coney Island Bar Unclear
Iconic Coney Island boardwalk hangout Ruby’s Bar, whose tellingly crumbling condition caught The Observer‘s eye this past summer, has yet to receive a new lease for the coming 2009 season [Kinetic...
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Joe Sitt Exiles Coney Island Queen Dianna Carlin
Thor Equities, the mall developer angling to transform Coney Island’s ragtag carnival of independent shops into a spangled $2 billion resort by the sea, has exiled Coney Island’s reigning misfit Dianna...
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Embattled Ruby’s Bar Gets Back to Business on Coney Island
Astroland is gone and fiesty seaside merchant Dianna Carlin‘s popular Lola Starr Souvenir Boutique has been banished from the boardwalk. But historic and architecturally challenged Coney Island...
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Traffic Jam on Coney: Parking Lot or Parkland? Fate Could Foil Mayor’s Plans
Add another obstacle to the Bloomberg administration’s plans to remake Coney Island: a parking lot. Despite many an overture to elected officials in southern Brooklyn, the administration has been...
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The Education of Joe Sitt
The tone of a City Council hearing last week on Mayor Bloomberg’s major Coney Island redevelopment plans was music to Joe Sitt’s ears. The red-carpeted Council chambers in City Hall quickly became an...
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Details on the Coney Vote! City-Sitt Negotiations Continue; Four New Hotels...
The City Council approved the Bloomberg administration-backed rezoning of Coney Island on Wednesday afternoon in a 44-2-1 vote. While the city is still negotiating with the rezoned area’s main private...
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City Pays Dearly for 7 Acres of Coney Island
After a long standoff with would-be developer Joe Sitt, the city agreed today to buy 7 acres of his Coney Island holdings for $95.7 million–or more than $300 dollars per square foot. It’s a nice haul...
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Fly Deal: Levi’s Makes MePa Rumors Reality with New Store
414 West 14th Street The gods of denim will soon be squeezing into the meatpacking district. With a new lease on West 14th Street, the Levi’s store will be stocked full of skinny jeans to accommodate...
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Freak On! Texan Takes Coney Space to Compete With Other Sideshows
Jones Walk and Surf Avenue Coney Island’s oldest building will soon play a role in its oldest rivalry: the vying for the biggest, baddest freak show. Texan sideshow owner John Strong is making a bid...
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Coney Island’s Joe Sitt Takes Fifth Avenue Jewel for $140 M.
Coney Island developer Joe Sitt, of Thor Equities, beat out his rivals to win the Takashimaya Building on Fifth Avenue for more than $140 million, according to the New York Post: [A] slew of potential...
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Coney Island Takes One Step Closer to Disneyland
They’re about to pave paradise, but instead of putting up a parking lot, it appears Coney Island is bound for more bland, bourgeois amusements. Nine boardwalk businesses found out their leases would...
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Construction Manager Takes 10,000 Feet
Richter+Ratner, a construction management firm, has signed a 10,000 square foot sublease at 45 West 36th Street. The firm, which has managed a number of notable projects in the city including the...
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Carnival Games: Was Coney Island’s Rebirth Doomed From the Start?
Keith Suber was born at Coney Island Hospital in September 1966, right around the time the spell that had seeded Coney Island in the world’s imagination, conjuring a “people’s playground” and a...
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Native Son: Joe Sitt Presents Second Annual Coney Art Walls With Jeffrey Deitch
Real estate developer Joe Sitt donated some space in Coney Island for an art show, complete with hipster food.
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