{"id":2559,"date":"2007-07-30T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/edc_danes_to_leverage_its_control_over_coney_island.html"},"modified":"2007-07-30T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:17:05","slug":"edc_danes_to_le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/edc_danes_to_le.html","title":{"rendered":"EDC Danes To Leverage Its Control Over Coney Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would you prefer Joe Sitt or Tivoli Gardens<\/a>? I mean, Coney Island and Copenhagen are close to each other in the dictionary, but that’s about it:<\/p>\n

Robert Lieber, president of the city’s Economic Development Corp., flew to Copenhagen last week with other top agency officials to meet with representatives from Tivoli Gardens.<\/p>\n

The meeting, he said, was both about Tivoli’s preliminary interest in Coney Island and to learn from the success of the 164-year-old amusement park on how best to transform Coney’s amusement district into a year-round attraction.<\/p>\n

He said a Tivoli branch in Coney Island could work without giving up the area’s famous freakiness, adding Tivoli officials promised a future visit.<\/p>\n

“We aren’t trying to create Disneyland in Coney Island, but we’re trying to create a demand-oriented model that maintains the neighborhood’s character and economic interests,” Lieber said.<\/p>\n

Tivoli, which has more than 20 rides and famous gardens, features the world’s tallest carousel and a 93-year-old wooden roller coaster, called the Rutsjebanen, that is slightly older than Coney Island’s Cyclone.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

With the city planning to rezone Coney Island’s amusement district this year to help future development, Lieber said he’s still not satisfied with developer Joe Sitt’s proposal to build a $1.5 billion hotel-entertainment complex in the heart of the amusement district.<\/p>\n

Lieber pointed out that Tivoli is successful year-round without the onsite condos, time-shares or hotels that Sitt has pushed for, despite Denmark’s cold winters and the park’s many outdoor rides and attractions.<\/p>\n

“They’ve learned to think outside the box and continuously reinvent themselves,” said Lieber. “They’ve made Halloween a weeklong event and have a two-week event centered around Christmas.”<\/p>\n

With Sitt controlling 10 acres of prime boardwalk real estate, both he and City Hall will have to reach a compromise or risk Coney Island remaining stagnant.<\/p>\n

The city could theoretically try taking Sitt’s land through eminent domain, but Lieber said he’s “not ready to go there” when asked about condemnation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Using eminent domain against a developer . . . now that would be a hoot!)<\/p>\n

Location Scout: Coney Island Amusement Core<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would you prefer Joe Sitt or Tivoli Gardens? I mean, Coney Island and Copenhagen are close to each other in the dictionary, but that’s about it: Robert Lieber, president of the city’s Economic Development Corp., flew to Copenhagen last week with other top agency officials to meet with representatives from Tivoli Gardens. The meeting, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}