Coney Island Follow-Up

February 17, 2010 12:59 PM

Update: A while ago, Coney Island's looming gentrification was discussed on the blue. Well, it's been a while - and the results are coming Memorial Day, 2010.

Coney Island has been mentioned quite a few times on the blue, and has been the site of at least one meetup.

This update doesn't seem to merit its own post on the blue, but all of those Coney Island posts, I think, deserve a follow up. via.

posted by jabberjaw to MetaFilter-Related at 12:59 PM (14 comments total)

"This update doesn't seem to merit its own post on the blue"

I don't see why not.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:24 PM on February 17, 2010

I, too, think this merits a front page post, just to bring out everyone who pops up frothing bile at the mouth with the mere mention of that word
posted by setanor at 1:26 PM on February 17, 2010

what word?
posted by Think_Long at 1:28 PM on February 17, 2010

Plans are in place to turn the run-down beachfront into a 27-acre, year-round amusement and entertainment district with restaurants, movie theaters, retail stores and hotels aimed at tourists.

Leaving aside the gentrify-Coney vs. Keep-Coney-weird arguments, since they're all done by this point: how the fuck are they going to get tourists to go to Disney Brooklyn when it's virtually impossible to get tourists out of midtown? Hell, it is hard to get many locals to go south of Park Slope. I love Coney, but it takes like, hours to get there from other parts of Brooklyn (via subway).

Ferry? Train (not subway) stop? Seriously, unless they're somehow able to make it into a capital-D Destination, I really can't see this becoming a tourist mecca.

Which I'm sure people also said about Vegas, but still.
posted by Damn That Television at 1:29 PM on February 17, 2010

We need an updates sub-site.
posted by GuyZero at 2:04 PM on February 17, 2010

what word?

It's either gentrification or Coney.
posted by longsleeves at 3:38 PM on February 17, 2010

It's "looming." It just reminds me of how great adventure games where back in the day and how they don't make them anymore and WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE PROPER ADVENTURE GAMES ANYMORE AND GODDAMN MODERN RPGS DON'T DESERVE THE MONIKER GODDAMN AND SIERRA WAS FUCKING AWESOME AND LUCASARTS WAS FUCKINGER AWESOMER AND I JUST WANT TO ENJOY LIFE AGAIN LIKE WHEN I WAS A CHILD IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH WORLD IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH? why don't they make games like they used to, mommy, why?
posted by Kattullus at 3:43 PM on February 17, 2010 [2 favorites]

everyone knows rockaway beach is the place to go in nyc for sun and surf : )
posted by sgt.serenity at 5:17 PM on February 17, 2010

I grew up under the roller coaster on Coney Island, which I think accounts for my nervous temperament.
posted by drjimmy11 at 5:25 PM on February 17, 2010 [1 favorite]

how the fuck are they going to get tourists to go to Disney Brooklyn when it's virtually impossible to get tourists out of midtown?

To be fair to the tourists, some days they're basically stuck there, like in cartoons when the fat character is trying to get through the tiny hole.
posted by invitapriore at 11:06 PM on February 17, 2010

AND I JUST WANT TO ENJOY LIFE AGAIN LIKE WHEN I WAS A CHILD IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH WORLD IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH?

Click: INVENTORY
SELECT: Ben Croshaw's Adventure games
USE: URL: Make LInk
USEL URL-LINK: ON KATTULLUS
posted by The Whelk at 6:52 AM on February 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

I want to know what happened to griphus' grandparents and their housing...
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 7:12 AM on February 18, 2010

what word?

Results. We are results oriented. We get results. Mostly because we leverage our synergies.
posted by salvia at 8:17 AM on February 18, 2010

What I would like to see is the Coney Island from "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities." Suburban and indelibly frightening.
posted by koeselitz at 12:17 AM on February 19, 2010