Two Phone Calls to Save Coney Island!
This week is the City Council’s last chance to request changes to the City’s plan to shrink Coney Island’s amusement district and block it off with four high-rise hotel towers. We need to make all council members hear our demands before it’s too late. Please take a minute and call your council member and call Speaker Quinn. It will take you no time. And then, call your friends, and tell them to do the same. Below is all the information you need.
To find your City Council member and their phone number, plug in your street address and borough here.
Call their LEGISLATIVE OFFICE number first. Try calling during the workday.
* Tell them you live in their district.
* Tell them that you’re calling about the plan for Coney Island currently under review by City Council.
* Tell them Coney Island is an issue of CITYWIDE concern and that the current plan would RUIN Coney Island forever.
* Tell them that the area for open-air amusements needs to be EXPANDED and that the proposed high-rise hotels need to be MOVED out of the amusement area.
* Tell them to urge the Department of City Planning and Councilmember Domenic Recchia to FIX the City’s plan.
* Tell them you would like to know what their position is on this issue.
* Tell them your address and tell them you would like to know what their position is on this issue.
* Tell them to check out www.saveconeyisland.net for more information.
Be polite. Be brief. Be passionate. Leave a message if nobody answers.
If you REALLY want to Save Coney Island, also call Speaker Christine Quinn and deliver the same message.
Christine Quinn’s legislative office: (212) 788-7210.
PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS. WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET.
We are doing great! Yesterday, at a street renaming ceremony, Speaker Quinn said that Save Coney Island had her phones ringing off the hook. Let’s keep the pressure on!!
PLEASE CALL TODAY (the sooner the better!). Thanks for your help!
Call for Volunteers
We still have plenty of brochures, fliers, and postcards describing the City’s plan and asking people to make phone calls. We need volunteers to hand them out and drop them off. If you have time in the next few days, please contact [email protected].
New York Times Editorial
The New York Times editorial calls for doubling the size of the amusement area and removing hotels from the south side of Surf Avenue!