Posted Jan 17, 2025, 3:33 PM
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Look at these idiots. What "real" jobs do they think are coming to Coney Island, and at that scale? What jobs with union protections, and pay well above the minimum wage do they think are coming???
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/cb13-land-use-votes-no-coney-island-casino/
By Kirstyn Brendlen
January 16, 2025
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After a heated two-hour meeting, the committee voted 7-2 against the application, with one abstention. The full board will vote on the proposal on Jan. 22.
To build the massive gaming facility, the team behind “The Coney,” headed by local developer Thor Equities, wants to close — or “demap” — a portion of Bowery Street and purchase air rights along West 12th Street and Stillwell Avenue, as well as raise a portion of Stillwell Avenue.
“[The community] don’t want the casino, and demapping is a stepping stone to that,” said committee member Angela Kravtchenko at the Jan. 15 meeting. “We don’t need more traffic, more —, more crime.”
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But supporters — some clad in branded “The Coney” T-shirts — see a glimmer of hope for an underserved community.
“This is a community that has been promised so much for so many decades, and nothing came about,” said Marie Mirville Shahzada. “Now you have a developer that wants to sit down with you and do something and all of you say ‘No, no, no.’”
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In their presentation to the committee on Wednesday, developers said approving the land use application would make way for a safer, pedestrianized Stillwell Avenue that would create an “entryway” to the boardwalk and amusement district, as well as the casino.
Demapping part of Bowery Street, said architect Dan Kaplan, would make way for an internal entrance for vehicles that would help reduce traffic on local streets.
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Committee member Yelena Makhnin was skeptical.
“Thor Equities is part of this community for God knows how many years,” she said. “I don’t remember anything done by the community by this company.”
Makhnin said she supported the 2009 Coney Island rezoning, which included rezoning one of Sitt’s properties to make way for a large hotel — which was never built. Years later, residents criticized Sitt for leaving other properties on Bowery Street undeveloped and dirty.
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So let's see. It's "You never did anything for me", but when you try to do something it's "No, I don't want you to do anything for me, because you never did anything for me." Stupidity at its finest. They better hope this goes through, or those lots will sit just as they are for the forseeable future and beyond.
Meanwhile...
https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswi...8a14c83-1acf-58fc-8046-6db401962226.html
CPC hears sides on Citi casino proposal
Backers say jobs and more will help all; foes fear environmental dangers
by Michael Gannon
Jan 16, 2025
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Supporters including residents, business advocates and civic leaders stressed the developers’ plans to convert another 25 acres of pavement to green space; high numbers of construction and permanent jobs; spillover impact for other businesses; commitments to create ballfields south of Roosevelt Avenue, a modern No. 7 subway station at Mets-Willets Point and work to connect surrounding communities with Citi Field and Flushing’s waterfront.
Opponents, fewer in number last week, focused on environmental concerns; social ills associated with —; increased strain on highway, water and sewer infrastructure; fear that studies did not adequately provide for rain and water table level changes from global warming; and disapproval of turning parkland over to private enterprise.
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Speaking first on behalf of Queens Future, Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, who represented the district in the City Council from 2009 to 2017, said she had never seen a project with the public support the proposal has received, including all six involved community boards and Borough President Donovan Richards.
She also said Cohen’s plan to make a large part of the parking lot green would turn land designated as parkland for decades into actual parkland for public enjoyment.
“Although Robert Moses mapped this as parkland, it has only ever been a garbage dump and then a parking lot, first for the World’s Fairs, then for Shea Stadium and Citi Field,” she said. “It has never been a public park.”
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Katie Walls said the project would be a detriment to the neighborhood’s character.
“We’re talking about a high glass box in what is supposed to be a park,” she said. “Just because it hasn’t been used for the benefit of the people living in the neighborhood doesn’t mean it should be turned into a casino.”
Rebecca Pryor of Guardians of Flushing Bay said the land is in a flood plain and former wetland that has been increasingly vulnerable to flooding. She and others said a massive development project could overtax things like the sewer system.
“It will increase flow to an overwhelmed sewer system that lets out into Flushing Bay,” Pryor said, adding that the system already dumps two billion gallons of raw sewage into the bay per year. But supporters said green space would absorb more rain and hold in less heat that an asphalt parking lot.
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Last edited by NYguy; Jan 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM.
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