{"id":2713,"date":"2007-09-05T07:50:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/coney_islands_loss_is_honduras.html"},"modified":"2007-09-05T07:50:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T15:50:45","slug":"coney_islands_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/coney_islands_l.html","title":{"rendered":"Coney Island&#8217;s Loss Is Honduras&#8217; . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Zipper&#8221; and the &#8220;Spider&#8221; sound like classics but have you ever gone on them for a ride? No matter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09052007\/news\/regionalnews\/ride_over_for_coney_classics.htm\">they&#8217;re off to Honduras now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Two longtime Coney Island rides were shut down yesterday to be sent overseas, the latest casualties of a developer&#8217;s stalled bid to bring a $1.5 billion entertainment complex to the amusement district.<\/p>\n<p>Workers yesterday began dismantling the Spider and Zipper rides near the West 12th Street shoreline, so both could be sent to an amusement park in Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>The workers said the rides&#8217; operator opted to sell the attractions after being unable to obtain a land-lease extension with developer Joseph Sitt, who owns 10 acres in the heart of the amusement district but is having difficulty getting city approval for his controversial project.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people are in denial about what we&#8217;re facing for next year,&#8221; said Dianna Carlin, the owner of Lola Staar Souvenir Boutique on the boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>But a Sitt spokesman yesterday said the developer won&#8217;t let Coney Island become a ghost town and there will be plenty of amusements in future years.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/coneyisland\/amusementpark\/index.htm\">Coney Island Amusement Core<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Zipper&#8221; and the &#8220;Spider&#8221; sound like classics but have you ever gone on them for a ride? No matter, they&#8217;re off to Honduras now: Two longtime Coney Island rides were shut down yesterday to be sent overseas, the latest casualties of a developer&#8217;s stalled bid to bring a $1.5 billion entertainment complex to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}