Warriors, don’t come out to play
The city, which owns 6.2 acres of Coney Island, was concentrating less on nostalgia and more on economics when it hired an Italian amusement park company to reinvigorate the flailing beach haven, which has undergone seemingly constant transformations over the past 130 years. The company, which said it had invested over $25 million already, has been eager to upgrade the boardwalk to make it more family-oriented, said Valerio Ferrari, the president.
All the store owners on the boardwalk submitted nine-year plans for the reinvention of their businesses. Mr. Ferrari chose to keep only Nathan’s Famous hot dogs and the tiny pink boutique store, Lola Star, which sells novelty items and other Coney souvenirs…
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