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AUGUST 30, 2010
Coney buildings set for demo despite preservationists’ protest; city council members support permanent protection for community gardens
The Department of Buildings has approved demolition permits for two vacant Coney Island buildings, the Shore Hotel and the Bank of Coney Island. The permit represents a setback for groups with an interest in preserving Coney Island, known to some as the “birthplace of the modern American amusement industry.” Juan Rivero, a spokesman with Save Coney Island calls the demo permit “a failure of imagination,” with a “disregard for Coney Island’s history and Brooklyn.”
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council member Melissa Mark-Viverito, chairman of the council’s parks committee, spoke of the city’s community gardens as “in need of permanent protection,” in a recent New York Times Op-Ed article. Their concern refers to a recent re-drafting of the rules that protect the city’s community gardens, effectively ending a previous agreement that protected 500 city gardens. Many are concerned that the gardens, which transformed hundreds of blighted vacant lots into vibrant green oases and significantly improved the life of surrounding neighborhoods, will be sold to developers, as there are no preservation-minded assurances in the new documents.
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