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Spiked! Pro volleyball tourney to skip Coney Island this summer
May 7, 2010 | 9:23pmThe recession has claimed another casualty: Frolicking bikini-clad athletes in Coney Island.A professional volleyball league that has made the Boardwalk home for the past four years will skip Coney Island...
Zombie king takes Brooklyn!
May 4, 2010 | 6:13pmThis event is BYOB — bring your own brain.On May 15 and 16, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrates the man behind the monsters — George Romero — during a...
Zombie king takes Brooklyn!
May 4, 2010 | 12:07amThis event is BYOB — bring your own brain.On May 15 and 16, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrates the man behind the monsters — George Romero — during a...
A BKLYN Designs for the ages — young ages
May 3, 2010 | 1:33pmBKLYN Designs, the ne plus ultra of uber-hip contemporary furnishings, has been known for many things over its last eight years, but family-friendly hasn’t exactly been one of them. The...
Demolition man! Sitt to tear down the spot where Harpo Marx made his debut
May 3, 2010 | 1:44amConey Island is gearing up for a summer of new rides and circus attractions, but the neighborhood’s main private landowner is instead tearing down historic buildings — including the place...
Coney Island's new Luna Park will turn you inside-out this summer
May 3, 2010 | 1:03amGet ready to lose your lunch.Central Amusement International, operators of the new Luna Park in Coney Island, say that at least 12 of the 19 rides headed for Surf Avenue...
A BKLYN Designs for the ages — young ages
April 26, 2010 | 4:26pmBKLYN Designs, the ne plus ultra of uber-hip contemporary furnishings, has been known for many things over its last eight years, but family-friendly hasn’t exactly been one of them. The...
Marty's amphitheater will leave room for little else in Asser Levy Park
April 19, 2010 | 7:43pmBorough President Markowitz’s controversial plan for an amphitheater in a Coney Island park will seize nearly three-quarters of the park’s already insufficient area for active recreation.The $64-million concert venue in...
Smile! And you can work at Luna Park!
April 19, 2010 | 7:42pmThe man running Coney Island’s newest amusement park has some advice for all those hoping to land a job at the People’s Playground this summer: smile. No, really smile.“We are...
Luna park to test limits of rides — on Brooklynites
April 19, 2010 | 7:42pmThe Italian ride manufacturers behind Coney Island’s newest amusement park say they will try out their latest scream machines right here in Brooklyn, making local thrill seekers either test pilots...
Nerds go nuts for the iPad in Brooklyn
April 7, 2010 | 7:56pmPeople who didn’t need the iPad lined up for hours to get one last Saturday, the first day that touch-screen media player went on sale nationwide.Some waited on line for...
Nerds go nuts for the iPad in Brooklyn
April 7, 2010 | 4:02amPeople who don’t need the iPad lined up for hours to get one last Saturday, the first day that touch-screen media player went on sale nationwide.Some waited on line for...
New tickets to ride in Coney Island
April 6, 2010 | 4:35amThey’re calling it Luna Park, but the new amusement park set to open in Coney Island next month will not be charging “Nickel Empire” prices.Central Amusement International — operators of...
Nerds go nuts for the iPad in Brooklyn
April 5, 2010 | 3:05amPeople who don’t need the iPad lined up for hours to get one on Saturday, the first day that touch-screen media player went on sale nationwide.Some waited on line for...
Astroland lives on Cyclone
March 30, 2010 | 2:10amAstroland Amusement Park is gone, but the storied name will still be one of the last things riders on the Cyclone roller-coaster see before plummeting 85-feet to the street this...
'Cheesy' start to new charter revision commission
March 23, 2010 | 2:21amLet them eat cheesecake!That was Borough President Markowitz mantra to members of the New York City Charter Revision Commission last Thursday as members held its first public hearing to discuss...
New meter-reading devices hit the nabe
March 16, 2010 | 8:32pmNew high-tech transmitters that the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) says will eliminate the need for meter readers to visit homes have begun appearing around Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach...
"Princesses" don't exactly get royal welcome
March 15, 2010 | 8:02pmA new charter boat dubbed the “New York Princess” has berthed at Pier 8 in Sheepshead Bay and another is expected to arrive shortly at Pier 2.Peter Guoba’s “New York...
Borough takes 'wait and see attitude' toward Charter Revision Commission
March 10, 2010 | 11:25pmCommunity boards across the borough are crossing their fingers and hoping for the best this week now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the members of the new Charter Revision...
CAI buckles up in Coney Island
March 9, 2010 | 11:19pmGet ready to ride, Brooklyn. In just a few short weeks, new thrill machines from Italian manufacturer Zamperla will start appearing in Coney Island.Central Amusements International (CAI), an off-shoot of...