BK Festival Vendors and Zipline, Stillwell Avenue West, Coney Island. August 18, 2012. Photo © Tricia Vita/me-myself-i via flickr
On Saturday, the BK Festival vendors were happy to be back in business selling sunglasses, hats, dresses and what have you after a two-week hiatus caused by the construction of the Coney Island Zipline. The Stillwell Avenue lot where their tents are pitched was no longer a construction site because the zipline is built, though it did not open for the weekend.
Why not? A zipline crew member told ATZ one of the required permits had not been applied for and blamed the festival management. One of the vendors said the zipline would never open because Mayor Bloomberg had his own and didn’t want any competition! Was he referring to the free zipline at the City’s Summer Streets, which ended on August 18th? Does that mean another vendor’s prediction that Coney’s zipline would open next weekend is true? We probably should have asked Ana, the BK Festival’s resident psychic.
If you’re rarin’ to go ziplining in Coney Island, watch magicalthemepark’s video below of the ride being tested several days ago and wish you were there.
UPDATE September 12, 2012
Related posts on ATZ…
August 14, 2012: Opening Soon? Zipline, Tom’s Coney Island, Place to Beach Bar
August 10, 2012: Steeplechase Plaza Under Construction in Coney Island
August 2, 2012: New Building Breaks Ground Next to Coney Island’s Stillwell Terminal
June 28, 2012: Zip Line Coming to Coney Island’s Stillwell Avenue in July
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