Get ready for some politically motivated Coney Island freak shows.
Hundreds of people are expected to pack public meetings tonight and tomorrow to battle over the Bloomberg administration’s plan for revitalizing the aging amusement area.
Sen. Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) is once again reaching out to community and other groups to drum up opposition to Bloomberg’s 47-acre rezoning plan by busing opponents to tonight’s meeting from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Lincoln HS, sources said.
Kruger used thousands of dollars from his campaign coffers to bus nearly 500 residents to Coney Island Hospital on Nov. 19 for what had been scheduled as the first meeting. But the hospital’s meeting room only holds 160, so the city rescheduled.
“I’m hoping busloads of amusement-park lovers and roller-coaster wackos . . . level the playing field,” said Dick Zigun, founder of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow and a supporter of Bloomberg’s plan.
No cancellations are expected with Lincoln holding 1,200 people and two more meetings tomorrow: 3 p.m. at the hospital and 7 p.m. at Lincoln.
The rezoning would pave the way for a 15-acre amusement park, 4,500 new apartments, and many major stores but banks on swapping nearly 10 acres of city-owned parkland for amusement-area land owned by developer Joe Sitt and classifying Sitt’s 10 acres “parkland.”
Sitt is pushing a glitzy, $1.5 billion entertainment complex that the city wants no part of.