Boardwalk Empires: What Coney Island Can Learn from Atlantic City’s Missteps
We would be remiss to break out our home run trot when it's not at all clear that the ball is headed for the bleachers.
Nate Bliss
Carnival Games: Was Coney Island’s Rebirth Doomed From the Start?
The revitalization plan, produced by the New York Economic Development Corporation and a now-defunct subsidiary—the Coney Island Development Corporation—consists largely of a modernized resurrection of Coney Island’s storied past. But how such a vision might coexist with a residential neighborhood bearing little resemblance to the one that stood beside the coasters and carousels of old remains unclear. The here-and-now appeal of early 20th-century Coney Island honky-tonk—its ability to underpin the sort of world-class destination that planners are banking on—is likewise unproven.
