{"id":2605,"date":"2007-08-10T03:44:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T11:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/itll_be_like_staying_at_a_toys_r_us.html"},"modified":"2007-08-10T03:44:36","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T11:44:36","slug":"itll_be_like_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/itll_be_like_st.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;ll Be Like Staying At A Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/31\/30_31hoteldeno.html\">here&#8217;s an idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City Hall wants to kill a $1.5-billion plan to turn Coney Island into a fantasyland of hotels, amusements and rides &#8212; but down on the boardwalk, at least one ride operator is singing a different tune.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stranger things have happened than a hotel atrium built around a Ferris wheel,&#8221; said Dennis Vourderis, owner of Coney&#8217;s landmarked Wonder Wheel ride and operator of Deno&#8217;s Wonder Wheel Park, most of which was recently sold to embattled Coney developer Joe Sitt by Vourderis&#8217; landlord Jack Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Vourderis retains a 13-year lease to the boardwalk park, but he told The Brooklyn Paper that he would consider selling his lease for the chance to build a Wonder Wheel hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With creativity and a lot of money, it could be awesome,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/coneyisland\/wonderwheel\/index.htm\">The Wonder Wheel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s an idea: City Hall wants to kill a $1.5-billion plan to turn Coney Island into a fantasyland of hotels, amusements and rides &#8212; but down on the boardwalk, at least one ride operator is singing a different tune. &#8220;Stranger things have happened than a hotel atrium built around a Ferris wheel,&#8221; said Dennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","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=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}