Tuesday, March 30, 2010
News Coney Island Development Continues, Locals Angry as Always
Posted by Henry Stewart on Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Coney Island, this could be your future
In February, the Times reported that neighbors
[L]ike Asser Levy Park just as it is — a quiet oasis with a modest band shell — not as a place, they say, that would draw more traffic, disrupt services at two synagogues and, perhaps most critically, diminish their only decent patch of open space.“His dream is our nightmare,” said Al Turk, president of Temple Beth Abraham, on Sea Breeze Avenue, opposite the park. “They’re destroying a park to turn it over to a concrete amphitheater. This thing is right on top of us.”
Nothing is ever easy in Coney Island development (no embedded link could express the truth of that statement in all its magnitude), and this fight probably isn't over, even if the locals have already lost.
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