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DON’T FEED THE PARK GOERS: Civic gurus voted down a city–backed
proposal to park a food truck outside Asser Levy Park.
Truck no! Pol blasts city’s
GET IT STRAIGHT: Councilman Mark Treyger called on the Department
of Transportation to repaint what he called the “disrespectful” squiggly
yellow lines dividing a stretch of Neptune Avenue. Eric Faynberg
squiggly yellow
lines on Neptune
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
This agency needs to get in
line!
The Department of Transportation
must repaint a
stretch of double-yellow lines
dividing traffi c along four
blocks of Neptune Avenue,
after laying down a squiggly
set last month, according to
Coney Island’s councilman,
who said the agency’s failure
to paint straight lines undermined
residents’ trust in city
government.
“It was a sloppy job that
was disrespectful to the Coney
community,” Treyger
said. “It really calls into
question the capacity of local
government to do basic
functions like painting the
street.”
Treyger fi rst condemned
the paint job on Nov. 29, demanding
transit bigwigs correct
the error in a Twitter
post that included a constituent’s
photo of the zig-zagging
lines, which the pol said run
along Neptune Avenue from
roughly W. 33rd to W. 37th
streets. The slapdash squiggles
are the latest in a series
of less than perfect work done
by the agency in the area, according
to the councilman.
“First they couldn’t pave
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Coney Islanders pan proposal to put
a food truck outside Asser Levy Park
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’re not trucking
around.
Coney Island civic gurus
bashed a city proposal to
park one food truck near the
neighborhood’s Asser Levy
Park, claiming the fourwheeled
grub hub would
be disastrous for the local
economy, attract too many
outsiders to the area, and
single-handedly discourage
residents from dining at
other family-owned eateries
in Sodom by the Sea.
“We didn’t want to be
congested with food trucks,
we didn’t want there to be
more garbage than there
is already, and we also
wanted to have the support
of local restaurants, diners,
convenience stores,” Susan
Flaschenberg, the cochairwoman
of Community
Board 13’s Parks Committee,
said at a Nov. 28 meeting
about the plan.
CB13’s full board voted
down the proposal backed by
the Department of Parks and
Recreation at the meeting,
with 20 members against it
and 10 in favor. The majority
merely wanted to protect
existing mom-and-pop eateries
by casting its no vote,
according to the other chairwoman
of the panel’s Parks
Committee, whose members
also panned the proposal at
an earlier Nov. 1 committee
meeting.
“It’s the simple reason
that it interferes with local
commerce,” said Barbara
Teitelbaum.
Both votes, however,
are purely advisory, and
Parks Department leaders
will make the fi nal call on
whether to proceed with the
scheme, which would allow
one food truck to park outside
the green space bordered
by Surf Avenue, Sea
Breeze Avenue, and Ocean
Parkway for fi ve years, according
to an agency spokeswoman,
who said the chosen
vendor would only be able
to drive around and set up
shop at another location in
the neighborhood if granted
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