According to the 2010 U.S. Census figures, the Asian population in Bensonhurst is increasing. If you live in or spend about 5 minutes walking around the neighborhood, this is not news. Too bad for the Brooklyn Paper the numbers didn’t come out earlier.
Today is Election Day in New York, and its a doozy. We vote for our Governor, Controller, Attorney General, both U.S. Senators and all Representatives, all State Senators and Assemblymemebers, and two revisions to the City charter. Schools are closed, and polls are open until 9pm. Be nice to your poll worker, they’ve been working since 5am and they still haven’t been paid for working the September primary.
(Coney Island photo: Brian Hedden. New Moon publicity still: Summit Entertainment… probably)
Today is the final day that the City is accepting proposals for their newly-aquired Coney Island property. Expectations are high, and the roster of interested parties reads like an All-Star team for amusement parks. And I am one of them. I got my proposal in, just in the nick of time. See below for the highlights of the newest jewel-by-the-sea:
Brooklynland amusement park.
Best. Name. Ever.
And then I added “land” and “amusement park” to the end of it. I kinda ad-libbed that one.
Rides and Attractions
(Photo: rockband.com)
FutureArcade – No broke-ass Skee-Ball machines or table-top Ms. Pac-Man units here. This will be the showcase for bleeding-edge video game technology, including Rock Band: For Reals. This is no place for plastic PlayStation guitars. You’ll be playing with a real rock band. Who would you rather be, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
There are two immediate openings in The Beatles Rock Band.
(photo: Brian Hedden)
The Biggest, Baddest, Inflatable Rides You’ve Ever Seen – This is what Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Julius Spiegel promised to bring to Coney Island last summer. This giant waterslide (brought in by Joe Sitt in 2007) is certainly one of those three.
There will be many movie tie-ins as well:
Team Jacob: The Ride (pictured above) – The squeals coming from this ride won’t be from fright – they’ll be from animatronic Taylor Lautner ripping off his shirt. Again. And, again.
Trust me. This schtick won’t get tiresome as fast as you think.
Admit it – if you were your teenage daughter, you’d tap that. (So will your wife, once Lautner reaches the legal tapping age.)
Alien Funhouse – A twist on the maze with the funny-shaped mirrors, this funhouse will kill you if you don’t make it out in 10 minutes, that is assuming it doesn’t eat you first. But if that damn cat runs off, send someone else to go after it.
Remember that badass gyroscopic axis trainer in Spacecamp? Yeah – totally going to have one of those. Will definitely need to pay someone full time to stand by with a mop, though.
SportsLand – A participatory park embracing Coney Island’s prestigious sports heritage, as home to the professional trifecta of baseball, beach volleyball, and hot-dog eating, including:
P.S. Just for the record, in real life, I love broke-ass Skee-Ball machines.
I’m going to a Cyclones game this coming Saturday night! Weather permitting, of course. They’ll be playing against the Oneonta Tigers.
If you can tell the class where Oneonta is – WITHOUT GOOGLE MAPPING IT, YOUNG MAN – well, then, you know your New York-Penn League geography better than I.
Zeke Faux of the Brooklyn Paper writes that the Clones, despite their first-place record, “are drawing the smallest crowds in their nine-year history.” The initial theories broached by the article: the poor economy and the excessively rainy July. But those are quickly shot down:
But across the Verrazano, where the weather was similarly miserable and 15 dates were scheduled for July, the second-place Staten Island Yankees are on pace to shatter their all-time record, with average attendance up 20 percent from last season.
Why are Brooklynites getting shown up by the S’islanders? I have a few theories of my own.
As Brooklyn’s biggest sports celebrity should.
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