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More Franchises – And Some Mom & Pops – Headed To Coney Island

Johnny Rockets is just one of the new franchises headed to Surf Avenue. (Source: Thomas Hawk/Flickr)With less than a month to go before beach season kicks off, a slew of construction is going on over in Coney Island with the hopes of having new restaurants and attractions ready

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First New Coney Island Hotel In Decades Now Under Construction, Except It’s Not In Coney Island

Construction site for the Sleep Inn Hotel (Source: Amusing the Zillion)Amusing the Zillion reported last week [http://amusingthezillion.com/2013/12/02/new-construction-coney-island-areas-1st-hotel-in-decades/] that Sleep Inn Hotel is now under construction on Stillwell Avenue and Avenue Z, just north of the Coney Island Creek, making it the first new

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ATZ: NY Times Got Coney Island Boardwalk Debate Wrong, All Wrong

At the end of the cult classic movie The Warriors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_%28film%29], when the radio DJ, who had been broadcasting the “big alert”- ordering the city to chase the Coney Island toughs in revenge for the death of an assassinated gang leader,