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Doomed Coney Island Boardwalk Owner Blasts Councilman
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 13, 2011
Modified Jan 13, 2011
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When Councilman Domenic Recchia came out in favor of evicting eight mom-and-pop businesses from the Coney Island Boardwalk, he argued that they "made a lot of money paying cheap rent all these years... They had plenty of chances to buy these properties and fix them up, but they never did." Today one of the owners, Tina Georgoulakos of Boardwalk snack stand Paul's Daughter, tells Amusing the Zillion that's balderdash.
"It hurts me to hear such untruths about Paul’s Daughter," says Georgoulakos. "I’ve been handcuffed by one year leases for years and years. And I would have given anything to have been given the opportunity to purchase the property but it was never offered and by the way it sold for 32 million dollars to [Joe] Sitt. I pay $100,000 for seven months. I guess some people don’t think that’s a lot."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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