This ran in Metro the other day, but never seemed to make it online. Well, better late than never I guess.
Joe Sitt, head of Thor Equities, stood in front a crowd of 70 grumbling locals at United Community Baptist Church in Coney Island this past Tuesday night to see if he couldn’t gather some local support for his development projects.
“You go to Manhattan and you got the fancy restaurants, you got the fancy theaters, you got the fancy bookstores,” Sitt said, “This our chance to have quality of life.”
Sitt used the evening as an opportunity to push new design plans for high tech amusements, 40-foot-tall LED monitors and a Virtual Funhouse maze. Sitt reassured locals that people will want to go to Bizarre Bazar for henna tattoos and local arts and that the hotels offered potential.
“When I drive around South Brooklyn the only hotels I know rent by the hour,” Sitt said. “You can’t have a career in a hotel that rents by the hour.”
Many locals walked away convinced by promises of union jobs for locals, low admission costs for rides and free tickets for kids with good report cards. Others remained unconvinced.
“It’s nice but they haven’t really come up with anything unique,” said Charles Denson, head of the Coney Island History Project, “What Sitt’s proposing is a corporate amusement park.”
Brian Childs - Metro
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