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Instagram post 2192560664375799547_24138733644 Thank you to everyone who came out to ROCK City Hall today! Our Save the Small Business Soul of Coney Island Rally was a huge success! Check out this piece in tomorrow’s @nypost
Instagram post 2191668966888102632_24138733644 PROTEST TOMORROW! Bring signs and colorful clothes that express the Spirit of Coney Island! See you on the Steps of City Hall in Manhattan at 1pm! Please note- They will not allow any signs with sticks or poles to hold them up!
Instagram post 2191003960710452008_24138733644 We need a vision for the future development of Coney Island that incorporates the small business magic that has made Coney Island unique for decades. Coney Island was created by small business visionaries. It would not be the destination it is today if it weren’t for these small businesses with the courage to dream big! Help us Save the Small Business Soul of Coney Island and move forward, into the future, with a creative vision for the development that honors this small business legacy. Help us tell @lunaparknyc and the City that small businesses deserve to thrive on the City owned land leased to Central Amusements International (Luna Park, Scream Zone). Don’t let them push their small businesses neighbors out with corporate greed. Join us at City Hall on Thursday Dec 5th at 1pm for our Save the Small Business Soul of Coney Island Rally. Or visit the link in our bio and write a quick email to those three addresses expressing why you think small businesses belong in Coney Island. Especially on City owned land! 📸 by @coneyislandjim
Instagram post 2190062448027848701_24138733644 The Save Coney Island Rally is officially rescheduled to 1pm on Thursday Dec 5 on the Steps of City Hall in Manhattan. Please spread the word & attend if you can! If you aren’t able to go please check our the Take Action link in our bio! Please write an email and send it to the three addresses listed there. Please help us Save the Small Business Soul of Coney Island! 📸 by @davedoobinin
Instagram post 2189364133204074912_24138733644 NEW DATE! DEC 5 at 1pm! The Save the Small Businesses of Coney Island Rally on the Steps of City Hall has been rescheduled to Thursday Dec 5th due to the weather. It’s suppose to snow & rain on Monday so we’ve rescheduled for Thursday Dec 5th when it’s 44 degrees and sunny. Please swing by on your lunch break! Join us as we rally to save the Small Business Soul of Coney Island! Please check Saveconeyisland.com for more info! 📸 by @davedoobinin
Instagram post 2188825980445705752_24138733644 NEW DATE! DEC 5! The Save the Small Businesses of Coney Island Rally on the Steps of City Hall has been rescheduled to Thursday Dec 5th due to the weather. It’s suppose to snow & rain on Monday so we’ve rescheduled for Thursday Dec 5th when it’s 44 degrees and sunny. The exact time is yet to be determined but it will be around noon so you an swing by on your lunch break! Join us as we rally to save the Small Business Soul of Coney Island! Please check Saveconeyisland.com for exact time!
Instagram post 2187840774683332580_24138733644 “We want a long-term solution that keeps [the affected businesses] there because [they] are really the heart and soul of Coney Island…” Johnson said. “We don’t want Coney Island to be a place that has a lot of high-end retail chain shops that don’t actually speak to the vibrant historic fabric of Coney Island.” - City Council Speaker @coreyjohnsonnyc. Check out this piece in today’s @nypost about how @lunaparknyc shouldn’t drive their small business neighbors out with massive rent increases and how the City needs a vision for Coney Island. Join us in the Steps of City Hall on Monday Dec 2nd at noon to reinforce this message! The City needs to act to Save the Soul of Coney Island! 📸 by @davedoobinin
Instagram post 2186040425987432537_24138733644 Join Save Coney Island at City Hall in Manhattan this Monday Dec 2nd at noon to help Save Coney Island’s Small Business Soul. The City used your taxpayer dollars to purchase this land along the boardwalk to preserve the Spirit of Coney Island. Make your voices heard about the importance of unique small businesses in Coney Island! Photo by @davedoobinin
Instagram post 2184951369241172951_24138733644 Join Save Coney Island to help Save the Small Businesses of Coney Island. We are hosting a demonstration on the Steps of City Hall in Manhattan on Dec 2 at 12pm. Coney Island was created by small business visionaries who had the courage to dream big and make their dreams into reality on our shore. Over the last 10 years Coney Island has lost some of this legacy with the addition of many soulless chains and corporations especially along Surf Ave. More needs to be done to maintain Coney Islands small business legacy and ensure the small businesses that are still here don’t get kicked out by greedy corporations. Massive rent increases which force out the small businesses who have made Coney Island unique for decades should not be tolerated. Coney Island should be a place where small businesses thrive. Celebrate Small Business Saturday (on the following Monday) by attending this demonstration and help to Save the Small Businesses of Coney Island!
Instagram post 2181343842800674249_24138733644 Don’t let Luna Park’s corporate greed destroy the boardwalk! Save Coney Island is taking the fight back to the steps of City Hall to ensure the taxpayers get what they paid for! The City purchased most of Coney Island, with taxpayer money, in 2009 to preserve the spirit of Coney Island. This land was then leased to @lunaparknyc . The businesses on the boardwalk lease from Luna Park. All of their leases expire on Small Business Saturday- Nov 30 2019. And they are all in danger of being kicked out, on Small Business Saturday, due to huge increase in rent and other greedy terms. Small businesses deserve to thrive in Coney Island! And the taxpayers deserve a Coney Island that still has character and soul rather then being exploited by one corporation. It is ironic that their neighbor, a neighbor we all welcomed into the community, Luna Park, does not understand the value of these small businesses. Stay tuned for more details about what you can do to help!
Instagram post 2180283363038839844_24138733644 In true Coney Island spirit. The morning after Steeplechase was destroyed in a fire. George Tilyou hung a sign that read “To inquiring friends: I have troubles today that I did not have yesterday. I had troubles yesterday that I have not today. On this site will be erected shortly a better, bigger, greater Steeplechase Park. Admission to the burning ruins: 10 cents.”
Instagram post 2176947744516946339_24138733644 The People of New York own much of the People’s Playground. The boardwalk and the land the new amusement parks are located on is owned by the taxpayers. It was purchased by the City of New York, with taxpayer dollars, to preserve the Spirit of Coney Island. YOU rightfully own the People’s Playground. And you deserve to get what your tax dollars were used to pay for- the preservation of the Spirit of Coney Island.
Instagram post 2176623252833858455_24138733644 Coney Island was created by small business visionaries with the courage to dream fantastical dreams into a reality on our sandy shores! The world had never seen anything like the Elephant Hotel, built in 1884, until one brave dreamer made it into a reality. Coney Island was built by a myriad of diverse dreams and visions. Not just one like many other amusement parks. That’s what makes it continually surprising and fascinating. Coney Island should continue to be a place where unique small businesses thrive rather then being pushed out. And it should be a place that dazzles visitors with many different dreams, not just the vision of one company or person.
Instagram post 2176269315853397546_24138733644 Our first Save Coney Island Demonstration on the steps of City Hall in 2007. Coney Island lovers descended upon City Hall to fight against greed and to preserve the Spirit of Coney Island! This was the beginning of a long journey to fight for the right kind of development in our Historic Amusement District. The fight never ends. Because unfortunately greed never ceases to covet the magic that inhabits our sandy shore. So we must use our voices to protect it!
Instagram post 2176247176588802069_24138733644 The time has come to resurrect the Save Coney Island Organization. I regret that I ever felt confident enough in Coney Island’s future that I let it go. I created this nonprofit in 2007 to preserve the Spirit of Coney Island. There should always be an advocacy group focused on this mission. Otherwise greed will prevail. As that Spirit is challenged again it’s time to rev that engine back up and fight to save the Spirit of Coney Island! More details soon!
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