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Article: CONEY ISLAND'S LAST RIDE? THE BULLDOZER!
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- April 11, 2007
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Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you
The season's first visitors to Coney Island can already see that the batting cages and the go-karts along Still well Avenue are gone, as is a miniature golf course that went up just a few years ago. From the base of the Wonder Wheel on West 12th Street all the way to the bus lot behind Nathan's, bulldozers have cut a large swath, leaving little more than barren asphalt and a few stray tires surrounded by a plywood fence.
It looks like a construction site. And that's what it's meant to be, according to its owner, Thor Equities.
Two summers ago, Thor CEO Joseph Sitt ...