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Early Addition: One day, the Coney Island boardwalk will get a $1 billion renovation
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James Ramsay
Published Dec 9, 2025
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where Sunset Park is getting a new nightclub.
Here's what else is happening:
- We're just an estimated two years away from the community input phase of what will be a $1 billion renovation of the Coney Island boardwalk.
- Starting next year, MoMA PS1 will be free for all.
- Here's how they moved an intact diner from Williamsburg onto the Steiner Studios lot.
- Staten Islanders are pumped about their new ferry route to Bay Ridge.
- After all that, ABC gave Jimmy Kimmel a contract extension.
- Meet the 4'10", 101-year-old woman overseeing the world's largest collection of nutcrackers up in Washington state.
- The Quad God did seven quads.
- Mind the swag gap.
- And finally, 12th man:
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