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Amusement purveyor plans to revamp Coney Island transit hub
BY ROSE ADAMS
The owners of Luna Park will
transform Coney Island’s
sprawling Stillwell Avenue
subway station into a shopping
and entertainment complex,
transit authorities announced
Tuesday.
The terminal’s soon-tobe
refurbished retail spaces
are slated to open by Summer
2020, and will include an
arcade and restaurant-bar,
a coffee shop, and fi ve other
food and retail vendors, the
city said.
Earlier this year, the transit
agency’s real-estate branch
awarded a 15-year-lease for
the transit hub to Central
Amusement International,
a corporation that has run
Luna Park since 2010. The international
company plans to
renovate nine of the station’s
11 retail units — about 7,000
square feet in all — including
space currently occupied
by local souvenir vendors, a
newsstand, and three chain
restaurants.
Some Coney Island residents
met the plans with excitement,
anticipating that
the renovations will revital-
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An adoring fan nearly swoons in the presence of his favorite anthropomorphised hot dog during the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
For more, see page 10. Photo by Jon Farina
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