The excellent Coney blog Kinetic Carnival, which covers Coney like no other, is reporting that the popular Coney Island fishing pier “could be closed off to the public as early as end of this June. And the boardwalk end of Labor Day.” KC writes:
The city had originally planned to begin repairs on the strip of [...]

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One of the better pieces of news to come out of Coney Island recently is that the city is finally going to fix the horrendously deteriorated boardwalk. The city has allocated funds for the project, and tomorrow two state assembly members will be presenting a symbolic $10 million check to add to the pool of [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Captain Nemo/Coney Island Message Board]
It looks like the city is, uh, fixing a particularly decrepit and dangerous portion of the Coney Boardwalk (other health-and-safety threatening spots, not so much.) It had tossed up a fence around this segment in front of the Lola Staar Boutique and other businesses a fews ago. Captain [...]

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The city has put up a big fence around sagging parts of the boardwalk rather than repairing it and Coney Island businesses are very angry about it. Boardwalk entrepreneur Dianna Carlin, who owns the Lola Staar Boutique, and whose store is somewhat blocked by the fence, sent out a press release headlined “Free the Boardwalk!” [...]

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The saga of the decrepit Coney Island boardwalk has just gotten curiouser. Rather than make emergency repairs on dangerously sagging and deteriorated portions of the boardwalk before the summer season, the Parks Department has put up a big fence, right in front of a number of Coney Island businesses including the Lola Staar Boutique and [...]

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The Coney Island boardwalk seems to have gone from bad to worse just in time for the new season. The block between W. 12 Street and Stillwell Avenue–in front of Ruby’s and Lola Staar and other establishments–seems to have weathered the winter badly and is now frighteningly deteriorated. (And we do mean “frightening” in a [...]

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