Reply With QuoteThe new subway station and baseball stadium are great additions, however the backdrop with the menacing tower blocks in the background are a letdown.
Whats the big deal about the towers? I saw them, who cares? Its NYC, what do you expect? :roll:
Although I did enjoy a recent village to Coney Island on my last visit, I feel it still has a long way to go before it becomes an attraction on the NYC visitors' circuit.
The new subway station and baseball stadium are great additions, however the backdrop with the menacing tower blocks in the background are a letdown.
Perhaps any redevelopment plans need to look into mixing more retail, dining, and after-hours venues, such as a movie theater complex, to improve the overall appeal.
The new subway station and baseball stadium are great additions, however the backdrop with the menacing tower blocks in the background are a letdown.
Whats the big deal about the towers? I saw them, who cares? Its NYC, what do you expect? :roll:
Some of them are city projects and they're kinda ominous looking. The Luna Park complex is also right by the area and they look like projects, though I recently found out they're not. They need to get completely re-bricked though so hopefully they'll be a little cheerier in the future.
There will be a public park built around the Parachute Jump. It will be called Parachute Park. The Jump will be lit. I will try to find out a timetable on this.
Much coolness, I saw it on the yahoo board. It's a standing mystery of the world... why the Jump has been unlit for all these years...
Yay!
:PMany of the 500 illustrations in Coney Island Lost and Found are images from Denson’s 5000-plus photo archive dating from the island’s beginnings as a seaside resort in the 1800s right up to the opening of the Brooklyn Cyclones’ KeySpan Park in 2001. The Parachute Jump, the sole survivor of Steeplechase Park, is a central motif.
Denson tracked down Chuck Steen, the Jump’s daredevil chief mechanic, who explained every aspect of the ride’s operation, including "riding the hook" to the top to rescue stranded passengers. Steen also explained the real reason for the ride’s frequent stalls: "If we weren’t doing much business, and two girls came on and they looked like screamers, we’d send them up about two hundred feet and turn the motor off," he says in the book.
Here is a look at the CIDC public presentation from last week
http://www.thecidc.org/9-30publicpresfinal.pdf
I found out the Parachute Jump will be lit next summer!!!!
Haven't got any solid info on a timetable for Parachute Park.
Construction at the CI Subway Terminal is supposed to be totally completed in mid 2005. Does anybody have any idea about what is going in the first floor shopping mall? Any specific stores or restaurant names? I haven't heard one name mentioned yet? Very Strange. Remember all the publicity around the Atlantic Terminal.
Parachute Pavilion Design Competition
http://www.vanalen.org/competitions/...land/index.htm
McDonalds will be a primary tenant in the western portion of the building. Last word, it had two floors.Originally Posted by muscle1313
Man I hope Coney can do better than McDonald's. How about Red Lobster?
Parachute Jump update
Parachute Jump to be
Coney Island's beacon
The Brooklyn Papers
A piece of Coney Island
history is in line for a 21stcentury
makeover.
The vintage Parachute
Jump, which rises high above
the ocean in Brooklyn, could
eventually anchor a pavilion
featuring a restaurant, park and
exhibition space, said Jonathan
Cohen-Litant of the Van Alen
Institute, which is working
with the Coney Island Development
Corp.
Designers will be invited to
submit their own "Parachute
Pavilion" plan for a currently
vacant 7,000-square-foot lot
owned by the city, Cohen-
Litant said Tuesday.
Currently, the long-dormant
ride serves as part of the background
in right field at Keyspan
Park, home of the minor-league
Brooklyn Cyclones. Borough
President Marty Markowitz
likes to call the city landmark
"Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower."
Details on the competition
will be released later this
week, according to Cohen-
Litant, although he had no
idea when a winner might be
selected. On its Web site, the
Van Alen Institute says the
new facility will operate yearround
in an effort to draw visitors
to the Brooklyn neighborhood
during the off-season.
"This is going to be something
truly beautiful," said
Councilman Domenic Recchia,
whose district includes a portion
of Coney Island. "We're going
to light up the Jump and it will
be a beautiful sight for all of
south Brooklyn. And that's just
the beginning," he said, alluding
to the formulation of a master
plan for the redevelopment of
Coney Island.
The ride dates back to the
golden days of Coney Island,
when it was one of the major attractions
with the still-running
Cyclone roller coaster. Two
years ago, the top half of the
262-foot-tall former thrill ride
was taken down for renovation
and many parts were replaced or
repaired and repainted.
The Parachute Jump was
designed by retired Naval Air
Commander James F. Strong
in the mid-1930s to train paratroopers.
But Strong began to
receive so many requests for
rides on his contraption that he
developed a more publicfriendly
version that included
seats for two and shock absorbers
at the base. He successfully
operated a 200-foot
jump in Chicago and then applied
for permits to build and
operate a jump at the 1939
New York World's Fair.
At the close of the Fair in
1940, Edward Tilyou purchased
it and brought the jump to
Steeplechase Park. It opened for
the 1941 season and offered 12
two-seater chutes.
Steeplechase Park closed in
1964, but the ride did not shut
down until 1968, when weather
conditions and high maintenance
costs led to its demise. It
was declared a city landmark
in 1977.
— with Associated Press
Olympic marathon
would start in Coney
By Jotham Sederstrom
The Brooklyn Papers
Coney Island, which earlier this year
lost indoor volleyball in the city's 2012
Olympic bid, has instead been awarded
the start of a marquee event of the summer
games — the Olympic marathon —
according to the city's final proposal, to
be revealed in Switzerland on Monday.
Sources close to the project told The Brooklyn
Papers this week that planners with
NYC2012, the private group led by Deputy
Mayor Daniel Doctoroff that is responsible for
putting together the city's bid, positioned the
marathon to begin in Coney Island and end at
the proposed Jets football stadium on Manhattan's
West Side. Along the way, runners would
cross more than a dozen Brooklyn neighborhoods
on their way to Downtown Brooklyn,
where they would traverse the Brooklyn
Bridge.
The inclusion is a boon for the former beach
resort neighborhood, which had been slated to
host indoor volleyball until NYC2012 officials
decided instead to place that event at the Continental
Airlines Arena in New Jersey. Bruce Ratner's
proposed Atlantic Yards arena in Prospect
Heights is slated for boxing and gymnastics.
Until now, the summer of 2012 was shaping
up to be a very uneventful one for Coney
Island, whose leaders were faced with being
left out of the Olympic plans altogether, and
whose hopes were dashed that a sportsplex for
athletics might finally
be realized through construction
of an indoor volleyball
arena.
"Coney Island will start off
the beginning of the marathon,"
confirmed Councilman Domenic
Recchia, who said he has
discussed the Olympics bid in
detail with Doctoroff. "It's going
to bring the Olympics and
everyone else to south Brooklyn."
The marathon route, which
had not been included in previous
drafts of the bid, was included
in the detailed, 600-page
"Bid Book" to be presented to
the International Olympic Committee
in Lausanne, Switzerland.
There, officials will grapple
over the assets and liabilities
of bids submitted not only by
New York, but Paris, London,
Madrid and Moscow.
The host city will be chosen
in July.
On Thursday, Gov. George
Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
and Brooklyn-born Athens
Gold Medalist Justin Gatlin
joined other Olympians and
Paralympians to officially sendoff
the bid.
From the Coney Island boardwalk,
runners would travel north
on Ocean Parkway, which would
eventually lead them to the borders
of Prospect Park and parts
of Brownstone Brooklyn, said a
source familiar with the plans.
The race would end at the
Manhattan stadium after a
swoop through Times Square.
Recchia, who has lobbied to
bring beach volleyball to Coney
Island despite plans for the sport
to be played in Williamsburg,
said that he spoke to Doctoroff
in August.
Although beach volleyball
will remain in Williamsburg,
and indoor volleyball in New
Jersey, Recchia said that Doctoroff's
decision to start the
marathon in Coney Island
would likely draw more eyes to
the beach.
"Hopefully, people will
spend the whole day, or even
several days, in Coney Island
because of this," said Recchia.
"It's going to be a great economic
boost."
Glad we finally got confirmation in the news of the lighting. I heard this coming summer.
Brooklyn Papers Excerpt -
"This is going to be something
truly beautiful," said
Councilman Domenic Recchia,
whose district includes a portion
of Coney Island. "We're going
to light up the Jump and it will
be a beautiful sight for all of
south Brooklyn.
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