Hey folks. Life has reared its ugly head and kept me from updating the blog. I hope you're all planning on coming out to Grillin' On The Bay AND the Brooklyn Chli Smackdown this year. If you're looking to cook, get your application in quickly. We may be sold out. We're putting together a great event...

This is from Save Coney Island and we urge everyone to sign it and pass along the link. Frankly, we don’t think the people craftinng Coney Island’s destiny give a rat’s ass what the public thinks, because if they did, plans would already have been signficantly changed and steps tak...

A while back, Thor Equities announced that it would have a flea market called “Flea by the Sea” in summer 2009 on the big empty lot it owns on Stillwell Avenue, between the Bowery and the boardwalk. (The lot is empty because he demolished all the rides and attractions two winters ago.) L...

[Jurassic Cigar Store (credit: Scott Specht)] The Municipal Art Society is hosting another meeting tonight to present (or reallly re-present) the work of its design team and all the ideas for Coney sent in by average people. Here’s a bit from the email: The Municipal Art Society will present s...

HOBOKEN— The new W Hotel in Hoboken has long been seen as a potential gamechanger for the 'hood, but a Curbed tipster thinks it might miss its promised March 18 opening: "So I drive by this place every day, and they're apparently a month from opening. I call bullshit, given the mess of construc...

Get on the bus. That’s the message Economic Development Corporation head Seth Pinsky had for attendees of a panel on Coney Island at the Municipal Art Society on Wednesday night. “If you really want to do something to help Coney Island, the only viable option that’s on the table right now is t...

It’s not hard to tell that we’re excited to see the Parks Department finally fixing the disgraceful Coney Island Boardwalk about which we’ve been ranting for nearly three years. We caught some actual workers in the act doing actual work, so we thought we’d share....

WEST CHELSEA— Though construction seemed to be zipping along when we checked in on the site in November, a tipster thinks architect Neil Denari's HL23 along the High Line has hit a wall: "Work has been stopped for over a month -- death rumors are flying." Not so fast! A building rep tells us, "...

Virtually eveyrbody has finally caught on that some people in Coney Island are very pissed off about the proposed $64 milliion Jones Beach-style ampitheater that Marty Markowitz wants to build in Asser-Levy Park. There's an opposition group that's organizing and there's even talk of putting the thin...

Of all the things to end up discussing after the city’s massive Coney Island plan was released, the fate of Nathan’s famous seemed unllikely. We figured we’d be talking about the four high rise hotels the city would allow or the dozens of residential towers. But no. One of the bigg...