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Photo of the Day: Pretty the Coney Island Cat
We’re happy to report that Pretty the Cat is doing fine since Target the Coney Island Arcade Cat moved to Las Vegas. Manny left plenty of food and she is being fed by Jimmy Balloons and his friends....
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Beer Island to be Reborn in Coney Island as Margarita Island
Remember Coney Island’s Beer Island, the popular outdoor bar where you could get sand in your shoes? The bar was one of the Boardwalk businesses evicted from City-owned property and closed down in...
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Photo of the Day: On the Bowery with Pretty the Coney Island Cat
Pretty the Cat is frequently mistaken for a stray by tourists but this Coney Island cat has long made her home on the Bowery where she is fed year-round by concessionaires. This morning, Coney...
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Coney’s Bowery To Get New Midway Games But Can It Get Its Groove Back?
It turns out that Dan Biederman’s consulting firm Biederman Redevelopment Ventures was hired by Thor Equities to manage and create programming for two lots in Coney Island. So what’s planned for Thor’s...
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Arancini Bros Sicilian Rice Balls, Luzzo’s Wood-Fired Pizza Debut in Coney...
Italian street food is popping up this summer in Coney Island’s amusement area. Bushwick’s Arancini Bros– whose motto is “We’ve got balls!”– is serving their Sicilian rice balls during Brooklyn...
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Thor Equities Buying 3 Lots on Coney Island’s Bowery, Mom & Pops Await Rent...
Thor Equities’ CEO Joe Sitt is expanding his Coney Island empire by buying up three Bowery lots on both sides of West 12th Street. ATZ has learned that longtime property owner Jeff Persily and partner...
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EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Persily Recalls Family’s Coney Island Years After Sale of...
What does it feel like to leave Coney Island after more than 60 years? ATZ asked Jeff Persily, who grew up working his family’s games on the Bowery and recently closed the sale of three lots–1105, 1205...
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Coney Island’s High Striker Queen First Victim of Eminent Domain
Coney Island’s High Striker Queen is the first victim of the City’s scheme to use eminent domain to acquire six privately owned lots for “the revitalization of Coney Island.” One of the lots is the...
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Thor’s Coney Island: Coney Art Walls Return Minus Smorgasburg, Go Karts May...
Coney Art Walls, an art project curated by Jeffrey Deitch that turned Thor Equities’ vacant lot behind Nathan’s into a pop culture destination last summer will be back in 2016. Seven murals painted on...
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Coney Island High Striker Queen Is Back in New Location
“I’m happy to be back,” says Monica, Coney Island’s High Striker Queen, who has a new spot on the Bowery under the famed Wonder Wheel’s Thrills sign. And we’re happy to be reporting the good news. In...
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Thor’s Coney Island: Joe Sitt Wants Zoning Changes to 2009 Rezoning to Build...
As part of the controversial Coney Island Rezoning of 2009, Thor Equities CEO Joe Sitt got Mayor Bloomberg to rezone his Surf Avenue property in the amusement area for hotels of up to 30 stories. A...
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