Flea Market on Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island. June 25, 2011. Photo © Tricia Vita/me-myself-i via flickr
We caught a surreal glimpse of the future of Thor’s Coney Island at the flea market entrance on Stillwell Avenue. A faux street sign touting “WATCHES” seemingly towers over the Parachute Jump. Across Stillwell, Thor Equities advertises Coney as “The Retail Ride of a Lifetime.”
The City’s 2009 rezoning allows for the expansion of retail as well as towers up to 27 stories, as high as the 270 foot Parachute Jump, in the Coney Island sky.
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Amusing the Zillion 
“All along the Watchtower”
oh, wow…very apropos….
“There’s too much confusion,
I can’t get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine,
Plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth.”