Around South Blogistan – Jan. 18, 2010

By Brian Hedden, Monday, January 18, 2010, 6:30 am
Blogwrap

Happy Martin Luther King III Day! Hopefully you’re lucky enough to be celebrating the way Chris Rock wants you to celebrate – by reading Ebony Magazine by watching Soul Train by not working. If so, enjoy this week’s blogwrap! If not… Hey! Why are you reading blogs at work???

  • Last year’s Coney Island rezoning, in addition to diminishing the allowable amusement park footprint and establishing the area where hotels may be built, will also allow the construction of 5,000 new residential units in 26 high-rise towers both north of and west of KeySpan Park. This was an idea Tricia touched on briefly in the comments here – now she has fleshed out some more of the details, including maps, the likely developer, and the identity of the organization that thinks Coney Island will look like Tron. (Amusing The Zillion)
  • Kevin Walsh visits The Big X – the intersection of Borough Park’s diagonal streets, New Utrecht Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Um, to be fair, he actually visited this place 2-1/2 years ago, but finally posted it as a “Forgotten Slice” last week. (Forgotten NY)
  • The John Strong sideshow is pitching a summer comeback to the winner of the Coney Island Sweepstakes. (Amusing The Zillion)
  • Missing no parking signs, and the resultant parking, are playing havoc with garbage pickup at three dead-end streets in Gerritsen Beach. (GerritsenBeach.net)
  • What part of DOH’d didn’t this Emmons Avenue restaurant understand? (Sheepshead Bites)
  • Two Brooklyn communities lost Joe Rollino, aka “Kid Dundee,” a former Coney Island strongman and 104-year-old Dyker Heights resident. Rollino was struck by a car as he was crossing the street. (Kinetic Carnival, Bay Ridge Journal, Luna Park Gazette) (Can’t promise anything, but there may be a BK Southie follow up to this a little later on.)
  • There might also be a BK Southie follow-up to the opposition by some members of the Sheepshead Bay community to a planned mosque in their neighborhood. Just as soon as I stop foaming at the mouth about it. (Sheepshead Bites)

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