Coney Island Casino

This story has been updated.  The People’s Playground will not become a gambler’s paradise anytime soon. After months of attempting to win over local residents and businesses, Thor Equities’ Coney Island casino bid appears to be dead in the crisp, salty waters of the Atlantic. On Monday, September 29, a community advisory committee officially killed…

The casino debate hit fever pitch in Coney Island on Tuesday night. At a public hearing held by a community advisory committee, local residents, business owners, advocates, and protesters crammed into the Coney Island YMCA to share testimonies for and against “The Coney,” a $3.4 billion casino development proposal seeking to turn the People’s Playground…

If you think those back-ups on the Belt Parkway are a nightmare now, wait until there’s a casino in Coney Island on the other end of it. According to an environmental impact statement included in the licensing application for “The Coney,” a casino proposal that promises to fundamentally transform the People’s Playground, the project would…

Update: A previous version of this article stated that 90 percent of Luna Park rides and vendors would be demolished or displaced by the proposal. A spokesperson for the developers has reached out to BKMAG to insist this would not be the case. They provided a project map from the developers for us to review,…