Back in November, state Senator Carl Kruger bussed in a reported 500 people to a city-run information session on the redevelopment of Coney Island, disrupting and ultimately shutting down the meeting in a show of opposition to the plan.
Well, now the expenditure report for Mr. Kruger’s campaign committee has gone online, and the final tally is in: it seems the senator paid $2,475 to bus company Dimino Express for the event, only a small portion of the $1.63 million he lists as having in his campaign account.
The reinvention of Coney Island is one of Mayor Bloomberg’s top economic development priorities before he leaves office in 2009, though it’s facing resistance from local electeds, the most vociferous of whom has been Mr. Kruger.
Though, the Bloomberg administration doesn’t seem to think Mr. Kruger and other politicans have a whole lot of substance to their complaints. For an article we wrote earlier this month, new Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber chalked up such opposition to "politics," telling us that he hasn’t “heard any true objections about what our plan is ultimately for Coney Island.”
