Complimentary Gift Wrap

Photo: Brian Hedden

Only six more days to get on the “nice” list.

• What does the future hold for Coney Island’s Boardwalk businesses? There’s a lot of insight (and pretty pictures) to be had in this Q&A between prospective amusement park operators and the City. (Amusing The Zillion)
• And speaking of which, the City and Thor closed the sale of the land the new amusement park will be sitting on. (Kinetic Carnival)
• There were two fatal hit-and-run accidents on Fourth Avenue – one in Bay Ridge, the other in Sunset Park. Generally speaking, I support the death penalty for such drivers. (Sunset Park Chronicled)
• I also support the death penalty for vandals. (GerritsenBeach.net)
• Who hates the DOT? Or rather, whose turn is it? DOT plans on and around Coney Island Avenue draw fire. (Sheepshead Bites)
• A Charter Revision Committee is expected to be formed soon, and a Community Board member in Coney Island fears that the CB’s may be on the cutting block.  (Boro Politics, via Bay Ridge Journal)
• The Manhattan Beach private security patrol may disband after the new year. (Sheepshead Bites)
• Everything you wanted to know about Adelphi Academy but were afraid their lawyers would try to make you stop. (Bay Ridge Journal)
• A Bay Ridge money manager accused of dressing as Bernie Madoff for Halloween three decades earned himself an indictment last week. (Bayridgistan)
• Coney Island Hospital recruits blood donors through Facebook. Is there anything that Facebook doesn’t do? (Sheepshead Bites)