The BK Festival featuring displaced Aqueduct flea market vendors opened for the first time on Saturday in Coney Island. The new flea market is located on Thor Equities Stillwell property adjacent to Scream Zone and Nathan’s, site of Thor’s Flea by the Sea in 2009. Check out our flickr slide show. We took pix of [...]
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Thor’s Coney Island: Aqueduct Flea Vendors Make Dismal Debut
Posted in Real Estate, Redevelopment, tagged Aqueduct flea market, BK Festival, Coney Island, flea market, Joe Sitt, Thor Equities on May 16, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Thor Equities Touts Coney Island as “RETAIL RIDE of a LIFETIME”
Posted in Real Estate, Redevelopment, tagged BK Festival, Coney Island, flea market, Joe Sitt, Retail, Thor Equities on May 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
On Friday, Thor Equities put up new signage atop the blue construction fence at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues, the gateway to Coney Island’s beach and Boardwalk: “CONEY ISLAND – The RETAIL RIDE of a LIFETIME – for leasing contact…” Ain’t it just like Joe Sitt to tout retail when Coney Island, the [...]
Thor’s Coney Island: Joe Sitt Scores Puff Piece in NY Times
Posted in Real Estate, Redevelopment, tagged BK Festival, Coney Island, flea market, Joe Sitt, New York Times, Thor Equities on April 5, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Like it or not, and some Coney Island businesses don’t like it at all, “NYC LARGEST FLEA MARKET WITH A FESTIVAL STYLE! [sic]” is on the verge of getting permits to open Aqueduct’s answer to Thor’s flopped Flea by the Sea in Coney. ATZ learned that Will McCarthy, the event organizer of the “BK Festival,” [...]














