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THEATER
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to support the proposed exterior renovations,
which must go before the
community board and city’s Landmarks
Preservation Commission due
to the property’s status as a city landmark.
Planned exterior work on the splitlevel
site — which is comprised of a
seven-story tower and the attached
four-story structure that formerly
contained the theater — includes:
• Restoring the seven-story building’s
original limestone base, which
retail tenants replaced with sliding
windows over the years.
• Replacing decaying parts of the
taller building’s brick façade.
• Replacing all of the taller building’s
windows, which are currently
boarded up.
• Removing the taller building’s decrepit
seventh-story balcony and replacing
it with a replica.
• Flattening the shorter building’s
rooftop atop the former theater to
make way for an outdoor terrace with
a pool, according to Gerner, who said
the fi nished product would recall the
splendor of the original structure.
“The idea is to bring it back to what
it once was,” he said.
Following the Land Use Committee’s
vote, the panel’s full board will
weigh in on the plans before sending
its recommendation to the Landmarks
Commission, which will issue
its own decision on the proposal at a
public hearing sometime early next
year, according to Gerner.
Changes to the property’s interior,
however, do not require the preservationists’
approval, because the city
did not protect its insides when designating
it an individual landmark
back in 2010.
Bigwigs at real-estate fi rm Pye
Properties — who scooped up the
Shore Theater for $14 million in 2016
— want to stick the spa and a parking
garage with space for 40–50 cars
inside the property’s four-story building
where Vaudeville acts once performed
on the theater’s stage, and refashion
the seven-story tower into a
more than 50 room lodge.
And atop the taller building —
which formerly contained offi ces, according
to the unelected Mayor of
Coney Island, Dick Zigun — the developer
plans to open a year-round
restaurant enclosed by glass bricks,
its reps said at the community-board
meeting. The Shore Theater — which
opened as Loew’s Coney Island in
1925, and later screened X-rated movies
in 1972 under the ownership of the
Brandt Company — has been dormant
for decades, ever since Kansas Fried
Chicken mogul Horace Bullard purchased
the property in 1978 and put it
up for sale soon after, when the state
squashed his plans to install a hotel
and casino there.
But Bullard died in 2013 before he
could offl oad the building, and the
squalid site he left to his heirs drew
criticism from Coney Island advocates
as it deteriorated into a homeless
encampment in recent years.
In 2015, offi cials’ announcement
that the city would scoop up other
derelict Coney properties that Bullard
bequeathed to his next of kin reignited
calls to seize the Shore Theater
using eminent domain , but Pye leaders
stepped in and bought the site the
next year.
CB13’s full board weighed in on
the exterior renovation plans as this
newspaper went to press on Dec. 19,
and the Landmarks Commission will
consider the panel’s purely advisory
vote in making its fi nal decision.
SQUIGGLY LINES
port exposing their squiggly predecessors
to the world, and more than
a week after Treyger fi rst blasted
transit bigwigs for the slapdash job
he called “ an embarrasment to the
city .”
But the original squiggly lines —
which were only temporary markings,
according to agency reps, who
blamed their nonlinear shape on bad
weather — are still faintly visible on
the four-block stretch, because workers
painted the new straight lines a
few inches away from them.
It is common for temporary markings
such as the original squiggles
to remain visible even after workers
lay down permanent markings, according
to an agency spokeswoman,
who said the curvaceous pair will
fade with the weather and the wearand
tear of traffi c, and that scraping
them off would ruin the roadway.
The spokeswoman, however, did
not specifi cally reply to questions
about why workers did not paint over
the temporary markings, and other
reps never answered questions about
when work on that stretch of Neptune
Avenue began, how exactly weather
could affect the temporary markings,
and what company the agency
contracted to do the work.
And Treyger said that no explanation
should excuse transportation
leaders from simply getting the job
done correctly.
“Do it right,” he said. “Our community
deserves nothing less.”
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GETTING GUTTED: The theater’s insides will
not be preserved in the renovation, because
the site’s landmark designation does not
pertain to its interiors.
File photo by Charles Denson