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Photo Album: Joe Sitt’s Bulldozer Crushes Henderson Building

Posted in Demolition, Photo Album, tagged , , , , on January 6, 2011 | 12 Comments »

Coney Island photographer Eric Kowalsky, who documented the demolition of the Bank of Coney Island in November, has eloquently captured the destruction-in-progress of the historic Henderson Music Hall in this series of images. Eric put his camera through the gate on Henderson Walk to take the above photo of the crushed remains of part of [...]

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Coney Island 2010: Good Riddance to Thor Equities Flopped Flea Market, Hello Rides?

Posted in Real Estate, Redevelopment, tagged , , , , , , on January 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Good riddance to the tube socks, cellphone accessories, shoe stores and automative supplies of Thor’s Flea in-fest-ation of last summer! Welcome back amusement rides on Coney Island’s Stillwell Avenue? We hope so…. On Thursday the Coney Island Rumor Mill was abuzz as new signage advertising the property “For Lease” was going up at Thor Equities [...]

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Video: Joe Sitt Talks Sharing his Coney Island Sandbox, Hotels & Brazil

Posted in Real Estate, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In an exclusive interview this week on Fox Business News, Joe Sitt, the real estate speculator who’s been holding Coney Island hostage in his battle to turn it into a shopping mall dotted with high rises, had this to say: “The way I look at it you’ve got to let other people play in the [...]

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