A day after emergency crews had to rescue a woman whose leg plunged through the famous-but-dilapidated Coney Island boardwalk, activists yesterday blamed the city for failing to maintain the wooden walkway — and for permitting heavy emergency and Parks Department vehicles to roll over it.
“This is 100 percent the Parks Department’s fault,” said Todd Dobrin, of Friends of the Boardwalk. “If you don’t maintain something, it’ll fall apart.”
Besides the section at West 17th Street near MCU Park where the woman was injured Sunday night, Dobrin said other “dangerous” areas of the walkway include “a war zone” between West 23rd and West 27th streets that’s “falling apart.”
Parks Department spokeswoman Vickie Karp said that while the city has “made major investments in boardwalk renovations in the last few years, there are still sections needing repair.”