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Article: A mind-boggling Coney Island of the future
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- May 28, 2006
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LARRY McSHANE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-28-2006
A mind-boggling Coney Island of the future -- $1 billion makeover planned
By LARRY McSHANE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 05-28-2006, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
NEW YORK — It's spring in Coney Island, with all the familiar signs of the coming season: The beer flows at Ruby's on the boardwalk, a help-wanted sign rests outside Nathan's Famous, stuffed animals appear in the cramped arcades.
An breeze rolls off the Atlantic — but by next summer, the winds of change will blow hard through the venerable Brooklyn beachfront where millions of Americans have frolicked and where both the hot dog and the ...