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The Great Irish Fair

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

The Great Irish Fair

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

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

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.

[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!

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.

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.

Printable Schedule

Saturday, September 22 2007

Sunday, September 23 2007

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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, ]