Around South Blogistan – June 7, 2010

 Posted by Brian Hedden at 7:00 am  Blogwrap
Jun 072010
 

It feels good to be back in Brooklyn. Still getting caught up. Lot’s of MTA and Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue festival stuff coming up later this week. Some Brooklyn Cyclones awesomeness coming up later in the morning.

  • The attendance of blogger Dan Cavanagh continues to be an issue at the meetings of the Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association. No longer content with having public and private (i.e no video camera) sessions to each meeting, some members now want to change the organization’s by-laws to bar non-members entirely, including Cavanagh AND community newspaper Our News. The excuse du jour is that GerritsenBeach.net’s Internet circulation lets outsiders stick their nose into the neighborhood’s business. Here’s the thing: I thought the members of the GB community that had an axe to grind with Cavanagh were upset about stories like the mysteriously dumped wood chips and the even more mysteriously dumped rubble. Those stories would still exist without access to the GBPOA meetings, so what’s the point in banning him? Other than retribution, that is. (GerritsenBeach.net, Sheepshead Bites)
  • Speaking of community newspapers, Bay News takes a few pot shots at blogs in its 65th-anniversary issue. Blogs respond by pointing out a couple of Inconvenient Truths. (Sheepshead Bites)

ConeyRocks, June 5, 2010

Sitt has 8 -10 year plans for Coney

As I have stated many times, this is all going into the next administration. Thor is not leaving Coney. All the other blogs got the whole scenario wrong.

Me, November 18, 2009

10. Joe Sitt’s plans, if they take place, will still take some time to get off the ground – the tanking economy and commercial credit markets will see to that. So while waiting for his hotel ducks to line up, will he allow the current game operators on the Bowery to stay? Or will he force them out and demolish the land? I have no idea. Recent history suggests the latter, but my inner optimist hopes for the former.

Of course, I am hedging most of my bet on the “no, he won’t” side of “if they take place,” which is the point CR is trying to make. But I totally called the it-will-take-a-while meme. Remember that, BK Southie readers. You read it here first.

  • Taconic Investments – Coney Island’s OTHER major landowner – outlined plans to NY1 for 2,500 new luxury condos within five years. (NY1 via ConeyRocks)
  • Landscaping at Leif Ericson Park. Finally. (Bay Ridge Blog)
  • Demolition for 93rd Street crack houses. (Beehive Hairdresser)
  • Mill Basin children fell into Jamaica Bay when the deck underneath their family’s above-ground pool collapsed. A swimming pool built over water. I’m not the only one who’s seeing this, right?
  • Memorial Day in Gerritsen Beach (parade | block party). (GerritsenBeach.net)

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  • http://coneyrocks.blogspot.com MUSCLE13

    Brian – All the blogs thought Thor would have sold out of Coney by now. You guys are going to have to come to the realization that Thor is taking this whole thing into the next administration. He kept the hotel and retail part and got $150 million in city infrastructure for Coney development so the fight goes to at least 5 years from now. Coney will go year round. There will be hotels. Change will happen, and man is it needed! A winter ghost town.

    The demolition will obviously be in the hotel and retail zone. That land has to be cleared or look what happens – All you amusement guys try to landmark everything to stop the hotels. That stops year round and stopping year round Coney simply can’t happen.

    I absolutely love following this. It reminds me of the whole Atlantic Yards scenario. Coney will happen. Good talkin to ya.

   
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