The City Council is set to greenlight the ambitious amphitheater-eatery-park conversion plan for Coney Island's crumbling Childs Restaurant today, but dissenters are hanging on with one lingering point of contention. A nearby community garden that the proposed overhaul would uproot says that the "the new venue would eat up chunks of city parklandmeaning the proposal cannot move forward without state approval. But the Parks Department says that none of the parcels are parklanddespite city maps [click for big] showing the exact opposite." A kink in the approval process? [Brooklyn Daily; previously]
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