A Message to Friends of Coney Island Regarding Save Coney Island’s Lawsuit Against the City

On Tuesday Save Coney Island served the City with a lawsuit seeking to overturn its flawed rezoning plan for Coney Island. It is not a step we took lightly. Everyone agrees Coney Island needs to be revitalized. We strongly support some of the City’s recent actions, like purchasing land for amusements and issuing a request-for-proposals […]

Siren Series Benefit a Success!

The rain couldn’t keep the eager audience away from our evening of short films screened at the cozy Black Horse Pub on Wednesday, December 2nd. The talented John Salvatore, a Brooklyn filmmaker and Save Coney Island volunteer, curated the Siren Screen Series, which featured 10 different shorts from 10 different directors. (Click here for the […]

Save Coney Island Files Suit to Keep Dream of Revitalized, World-Class Coney Island Alive

Grassroots activist group Save Coney Island announced today that it had filed a lawsuit challenging the Bloomberg administration’s rezoning of Coney Island’s amusement area. Several Coney Island residents and amusement district workers and performers joined Save Coney Island as plaintiffs. The suit was filed Wednesday, November 25 at New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan […]