Coney Island aka The Forgotten City

Not that at any point was Coney Island an "attraction", but now it's officially shit.
Random request from a friend craving a Nathan's hotdog, which btw wasn't half bad but never again, led me to bowels of Brooklyn and I must say it was exactly what I thought it was goin to be but was really kinda hopin it wasn't. Got that??

So between the chickenheads still in their bathing suits at 10pm; to the hobos, to the man wearing snake skin tights with the only frontal bulge, to the old white guy who probably doesn't know that gravity got the best of him decades ago, to the trash littered "beach" and mosquito infested boardwalk; all the way to the neighborhood hooligans selling nutcrackers AND ciroc and pineapple every 3 feet for $3 dollars......I must say that my heart was deeply saddened and I would never take a child there. It's almost like a parallel universe when you get to Surf Ave. Like Mount Vernon, Coney Island has gotten left behind....The Forgotten City.

Above all else...The Cyclone and Wonder Wheel are still there.

That Lunar Park Project is no where near complete, just a bunch of empty lots with debris and scaffolding everywhere and the war between the ppl on opposite sides of the street needs to stop. I get the argument, trust me I do, but that's a prime location for exactly what's already there, it's just in dyer need of a face lift and maintenance.

So here's what you do....once renovated you'll have Keyspan Park, the Amusement Park, the Aquarium, various places to eat and for arguments sake we can even include the DMV. Pack up the kids, find a parking spot(prolly the hardest part), find a nice spot on the beach, leave the wife n kids, go get your license plates, registration, whatever, grab the fam, go see the amphibians, chill for about an hour then you gotta feed em. After you feed em you get some $12 tixs for the Cyclones, kick back, relax, and enjoy the game. Then you pack up the car, load up the kids, they fall asleep. You get home, put em to bed and take care of grown folk bidness, and feel good that you had a productive day WITH the family. Sounds like a good deal to me.

So get it together ppl. Seriously