Jhans Chinar is closing and moving to coney island.
The restaurant which was famous in Russian community needed more space. That concern was echoed by all of the reviews.
Do you know what this means!?!
More Parking at Keyfood! Very Exciting!
Posts under ‘Coney Island’
Keyspan Park No Longer Keyspan Park
National Grid, formally known as Keyspan, is dropping the Keyspan from Keyspan Park.
Their original contract/deal, according to the daily news, was supposed to last until 2020 but they ended the deal earlier, with no one talking about how much the split was worth.
What will this mean for the now Nameless Park and Coney Island? Maybe Tracey Real Estate Park? Brooklyn Brewery Park? What about just straight-up Coney Island Stadium?
Coney Island Great Irish Fair 2009
The 28th Annual Great Irish Fair of New York was this last weekend and of course we attended. There was a decent Gerritsen Beach crowd there.
Buckley’s Staff
Buckley’s Staff
Crowd watching MacTalla Mor
MacTalla Mor
Events: Brooklyn Great Irish Fair Approaches
Can you hear the bagpipes calling?
The 28th annual Great Irish Fair of New York is slated for September 19 and 20 at KeySpan Park, Coney Island. at the Brooklyn Cyclone’s Keyspan Park in beautiful Coney Island for a two-day celebration of Irish heritage with great music, food, dancing, family activities.
Admission is to The Great Irish Fair is $12 a person per day. The cost for families is $30 for two adults and their children Children under 12 are admitted free.
The Great Irish Fair is a family-friendly event that attracts people from all over the metropolitan area.
Come by, listen to great Irish music, watch the continuous live entertainment and even enjoy a pint or two of Guinness—————————————————————————————————-
The Great Irish Fair of New York is sponsored by:
The Irish American Building Society Charities, Inc.
10 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 900
New York, NY 10020
September 19-20, 2009
National Grid Keyspan Ballpark, Coney Island, New York
$12 a person per day. The cost for families is $30 for two adults and their children Children under 12 are admitted free.
100% of the net proceeds derived from the fair are donated to charity.
Coney Island: Astroland Rocket Gone
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Via the Coney Island Message Board
All Pictures and video by Capt_Nemo
Coney Island is being torn apart. The amusement park Astroland closed in September, and its rides have been moved to storage—except for its 70-foot-long silver rocket ride. The rocket, which debuted in 1962, once took riders on a three-minute mock trip to outer space.
Longtime Astroland owners Carol and Jerry Albert, who sold most of their land to New York-based developer Thor Equities last year, donated the rocket to the nonprofit Coney Island History Project and have offered to contribute toward the estimated $15,000 cost for moving the landmark from the top of a building—money the nonprofit doesn’t have.
People from car-wash owners to museum curators have contacted the Coney Island History Project about the Astroland Moon Rocket, including an amusement park in Pakistan.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the New York Hall of Science, and Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn were all unable to provide a new home for the rocket due to lack of space or logistics.
If the rocket was not moved by Jan. 31, it would of become the property of Thor Equities, which now owns most of Coney Island.
The Great Irish Fair Of New York This Weekend!
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Join us on Saturday September 20th and Sunday September 21st at the Brooklyn Cyclone’s Keyspan Park in beautiful Coney Island for a two-day celebration of Irish heritage with great music, food, dancing, family activities and all around good craic.
The Great Irish Fair is a family-friendly event that attracts people from all over the metropolitan area.
Come by, listen to great Irish music, watch the continuous live entertainment and even enjoy a pint or two of Guinness! The cost of admission is $10 per person, $5 for children under 12, and all proceeds will be donated to support the Catholic Schools of the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese. —————————————————————————————————-
The Great Irish Fair of New York is sponsored by:
The Irish American Building Society Charities, Inc.
10 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 900
New York, NY 10020
September 20-21, 2008
Keyspan Ballpark, Coney Island, New York
$10 per person / $5 for children under 12
All Proceeds Donated to Support the Catholic Schools of the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese
Events: Irish Fair Approaches and Has New Website!
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Join us on Saturday September 20th and Sunday September 21st at the Brooklyn Cyclone’s Keyspan Park in beautiful Coney Island for a two-day celebration of Irish heritage with great music, food, dancing, family activities and all around good craic.
The Great Irish Fair is a family-friendly event that attracts people from all over the metropolitan area.
Come by, listen to great Irish music, watch the continuous live entertainment and even enjoy a pint or two of Guinness! The cost of admission is $10 per person, $5 for children under 12, and all proceeds will be donated to support the Catholic Schools of the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese. —————————————————————————————————-
The Great Irish Fair of New York is sponsored by:
The Irish American Building Society Charities, Inc.
10 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 900
New York, NY 10020
September 20-21, 2008
Keyspan Ballpark, Coney Island, New York
$10 per person / $5 for children under 12
All Proceeds Donated to Support the Catholic Schools of the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese
Coney Island Mermaid Declares Hunger Strike to Protest City Plan
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Savitri D aka 2008 Queen Mermaid is in the middle of her 4 day hunger strike. It is all to bring attention to the upcoming Coney Island Community Scoping Meeting and the new Coney Island developments.
She is fasting to draw attention to a destructive city scheme to reduce the compromised 60 acres of amusements to 9. She is fasting so YOU will come to this meeting, where the fate of Coney Island may be determined.
Although she is grabing the attention of passersby on the corner of Surf and W12 Savitri is also using the internet. With a webcam she is broadcasting her hunger strike to a global audience and answering questions to anyone who asks, and plans to until the meeting.
The Coney Island Community Scoping Meeting June 24th Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Lincoln High School – 2800 Ocean Parkway
Nathan’s Raises Prices by 9.2%
Via the Coney Island Message Board
Been to Coney Island yesterday, because I had a day off from work, and wanted to eat lunch at Nathan’s. To my surprise, Nathan’s has raised their prices once again.
This summer, a hotdog will cost you $2.95 plus tax making the price of 1 hotdog $3.20 approximately a 9.2% increase over last years price of $2.75 plus tax. The prices of everything else was raised the same 9.2% as well. I do feel sorry for the family of 4, that stops at Nathan’s before or after a day at the beach, because its going to cost them an “Arm and a Leg” to enjoy a decent meal there now.The web site www.Nathans.com is providing a printable coupon “Buy one get one FREE” for Hotdogs only. Here is a copy of the 2008 coupon.
B&B Carousell Historic Sign Obliterated with Paint Roller
[Top Image the Gowanus Lounge. Bottom photo courtesy of Captain Nemo, Coney Island Message Board]
Reposted from the Gowanus Lounge. Check it out!
While the B&B Carousell itself was saved and will someday reappear as part of the city’s planned Steeplechase Plaza, the sign for it that has been on Surf Avenue since the days of Luna Park is now gone. It fell victim to a paint job that was photographed by the Coney Island Message Board’s Captain Nemo, who calls the destruction of the sign “a crime.” The sign was painted on metal that was bolted to the building and, apparently, couldn’t be removed without causing a lot of damage and the subject of saving it had come up in the past. Saving it is no longer an issue, however, as this small yet significant piece of Coney history has been obliterated via paint roller. While one can appreciate that it might have been difficult or impossible to remove from the building, you certainly have to wonder if there was a way to restore the sign and make it part of the new building and whatever ends up there. No matter. It’s now another bit of Brooklyn’s past that is just a photograph.
I agree this should off been a crime!
Brooklyn’s Aquarium Coup D’état Sleeps with Fishes
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Reposted from The Gowanus Lounge
Call it one of the most short-lived coup attempts in Brooklyn history. “A plan floated Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz for the city to take control of the New York Aquarium is dead in the water,” Jotham Sederstrom reports in today’s Daily News. On Thursday night, during his “State of the Borough” report, Borough President Marty Markowitz proposed that a Board of Directors people by Brooklynites take control of the New York Aquarium from the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, among other things. Now:
…a source familiar with the issue said the idea has sunk. “It’s not something we’re considering,” said a city source. Markowitz praised the Wildlife Conservation Society but said the Bronx-based nonprofit organization had its hands full with the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo and the Prospect Park Zoo.
We’d have paid good money to see the email flow and listen in on the phone conversations trying to put down the Brooklyn Nemo Coup quickly.
Irish Fair this weekend!
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The Great Irish Fair is back. And in Coney Island. Where it belongs. The fair will be held this Saturday and Sunday, in the parking lot of Cyclones Stadium KeySpan Park, and this year it’s being run by Marty Cottingham who did so much to save Holy Name School and to help turn around Bishop Ford High.
And this time instead of Catholic Charities, the proceeds will be going to Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens to build up the technological infrastructure like science labs and computer rooms to make the parochial schools competitive with the city’s best private schools.
There is always great bands playing along with great food and drinks. There is also usually rides and games for the kids.
If you remember the 2006 Great Irish Fair was canceled by Margaret Keaveney, director of communications for Catholic Charities. She had said that a lack of organizers and volunteers caused the group to re-think its efforts.
We here at GerritsenBeach.Net are going to go to the fair, but just as an excuse to drink Guinness.
Saturday, September 22 2007
| VIP/Cultural Tent | Time | Main Stage | Time |
| Mass | 10:00 – 11:15 | Pipers | After Mass |
| Breakfast | 10:30 – 12:00 | Finton Stanely | 11:30 – 12:00 |
| Johnny & the Club Men | 12:00 – 1:15 | The Rivermen | 1:00 – 2:40 |
| Emigrant Eyes | 2:40 – 3:10 | Step Dancers – Buckley’s | 2:40 – 3:10 |
| Finton Stanely | 2:30 – 3:45 | Dermot Henry | 3:10 – 3:50 |
| Step Dancers | 3:45 – 4:15 | The Canny Brothers | 3:50 – 5:05 |
| The Rivermen | 4:15 – 5:30 | Black 47 | 5:30 – 7:00 |
| Pipers | 7:00 – 7:30 |
Sunday, September 23 2007
| VIP/Cultural Tent | Time | Main Stage | Time |
| Mass | 11:00 – 12:00 | Pipers | 12:00 – 12:30 |
| Sr. Beata | 12:15 – 1:30 | Garavogue | 12:30 – 2:00 |
| The Rivermen | 1:30 – 3:00 | Step Dancers – O’Malley | 2:00 – 2:20 |
| Step Dancers | 3:00 – 3:30 | Dermot Henry | 2:20 – 2:55 |
| Emigrant Eyes | 3:00 – 5:00 | Andy Cooney | 3:00 – 4:30 |
| Step Dancers | 3:45 – 4:15 | Pipers | 4:30 – 4:50 |
| The Rivermen | 4:15 – 5:30 | The Canny Brothers | 4:50 – 5:40 |
| 2U Band | 6:00 – 7:30 |
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The Great Irish Fair Is Back!
Scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, September 22 and 23rd 2007 in the Brooklyn Cyclone’s Keyspan Park parking lot.
There is always great bands playing along with great food and drinks. There is also usually rides and games for the kids.
If you remember the 2006 Great Irish Fair was canceled by Margaret Keaveney, director of communications for Catholic Charities. She had said that a lack of organizers and volunteers caused the group to re-think its efforts.
We here at GerritsenBeach.Net are going to go to the fair, but just as an excuse to drink Guinness.
[Image: Not the Coney Island Irish Fair but still an Irish Fair. Irish Fair 07- , by John Aug at flickr, ]
The New Coney Island will now NOT include housing
All but till now the Coney Island development plans from Thorr Equities always had housing in it. A 500 foot glass tower to be a bit more accurate. Now, Developer Joe Sitt & Thor Equities are “shelving plans to build housing in Coney Island and will go ahead with his redevelopment plan as a mix of amusements and retail”
Astroland up for sale
| via the Gowanus Lounge |
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| The Water Flume, manufactured in 1965 and said to be in “excellent condition” will set you back $199,000. The Tilt-A-Whirl, on the other hand, is only $29,000, as is the Scrambler. The Pirate Ship, though, is $199,000. Dante’s Inferno is $225,000. No price is listed for the Astrotower. For that, you have to call. |