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I used to live in Coney Island a year and a half ago. I love Luna Park and the businesses around it. It’s also an extension of one of the first theme parks in America called Steeplechase Park built in 1897. Walt Disney visited Steeplechase park and studied it for inspiration for his own parks. In the 1960s Fred Trump ( yes, Donald Trumps father) bought and tore down Steeplechase Park to build condos, which he was unsuccessful. Let’s not make the same mistake of selling that area to billionaires again… They don’t care that people need jobs or how much people treasure what they are about to destroy. All they think about is how much money they can make for themselves.
Heather supported: Say “NO” to Coney Island Casino!Coney Island is a National Treasure and should be protected as such. Allowing a casino to rob the residents of Coney Island's past, present and future would be a travesty. Coney Island is a family friendly destination as well as a popular field trip spot for NYC school kids. Demolishing the amusement parks will not only deprive the children of this experience, it will cripple the New York City Aquarium's income, (as school trips and tourist's admission fees provide money to keep this non-profit funded and open). Casinos routinely operate with the goal to keep their visitor's INSIDE THE CASINO, providing them with amenities and distractions to keep them spending their money only at the casino.
Fred Trump tried to bulldoze this iconic community once, and he failed. We, the community of Coney Island are here to say NO CASINO! Furthermore, the economically vulnerable in Coney will be further harmed isolated further when the small mom and pop stores go out of business and the big corporate companies come in and raise prices. What about providing new jobs, you ask? Skilled labor will come from outside of the community, as we currently do not have card dealers, pit bosses and the like. The part time, minimum wage jobs that may be offered will give community members a false sense of security as the casinos will target their wages as potential income, and these workers will inevitably end up worse off than they were before they got the job. It happened in Atlantic City, and it happens in Vegas, go ahead and fact check it. Casinos only profit the big money corporations and their owners, not the people who visit them. Everyone knows "the house always wins", it's how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The residents of Coney Island deserve to keep their home and their community a vibrant vacation (and staycation) spot, bringing in hundreds of thousands of tourists a year to this gem of a neighborhood. If you know Coney, you LOVE Coney, it is a living, breathing, vibrant community that spans generations, is socially and ethnically diverse, and is the heart and soul of Brooklyn.
Katie supported: Say “NO” to Coney Island Casino!Coney Island is a destination for thousands and their children every day in the summer. There's nothing else like it in NYC. I brought my nieces last year and they had a blast. It must be preserved! Sincerely, Margaret Stix
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