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Save Coney Island

Posted by MEEfO on July 11, 2008 at 8:00pm
Remember New Yorkers, Americans, Sympathizers worldwide:Today is the last day to voice your dissent in the fight to save Coney Island from re-development.I have sent the following missive. It seems fitting. I hope you follow. Email this address before 5pm ET 7/11/08: rbelsky@nycedc.comDear Mrs. Belsky,Sirs & Mdms,I am a Brooklyn resident, a New Yorker, an American. I am a student of our past and an admirer of our present. However, I see clearly the mistakes of our fathers in the name of development, of forward momentum, of manifest destiny.Progress and history are not mutually exclusive. An entity that exists in the collective conscious of so many souls, past and present--passed ever toward future souls--has cascading energy, like so much inertia, capable of blowing you over. A shockwave felt for generations.You and your monies will one day be gone. Coney Island will remain. For all of your efforts, it may change, but the fugitive sensation of its past will be the dread image that haunts our future sons and daughters: our living historians.One day we will clamor to rebuild, like Penn Station before it. And on this day your legacy will join the fate (prematurely ushered in by your kind) of our beloved park, our beloved boardwalk, our beloved Brooklyn--damned; the casualties of a gluttonous fold.In the end, Coney Island is lost; you, forgotten. Who does it serve?America needs its past; New York needs Coney Island; Brooklyn, its soul.Leave our park, our pastime, our land alone.Ever yours,Matthew S King[[contact info omitted]]
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