No playground for Coney Island this year
Apr 02
Saturday, Feb 26th 2011, 4:00 AM
The circus is pulling adult a Brooklyn stakes.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus pronounced it won’t be in Coney Island this summer.
The playground drew some-more than 250,000 people to a once-vacant strand lot in a past dual years and was widely approaching to lapse this summer.
It motionless not to since of scheduling conflicts and a high cost of using a uncover all summer, city officials said.
Ringling Bros. orator Stephen Payne pronounced a playground is already requisitioned for West Coast shows.
“We only couldn’t make it work,” he said. “We have so many tours relocating around a country. There are a lot of relocating parts.”
He pronounced Ringling is still meddlesome in entrance behind to Coney Island in a future.
Mayor Bloomberg has touted Ringling’s Brooklyn participation as partial of Coney Island’s revival. The city Economic Development Corp. pronounced it’s looking during options to reinstate a circus.
The owners of a W. 21st St. lot, Taconic Investment Partners, eventually skeleton to build housing there though has no evident skeleton for it. Spokeswoman Michele de Milly pronounced a landlord was “surprised and disappointed” by a circus’ move.
Ringling also called off a normal Madison Square Garden uncover this open since of renovations during a arena, withdrawal no uncover in a city this year.