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SEE IT NOW: The Grashorn Building, Coney Island’s oldest remaining structure, is slated to be razed, according to city records.
IT’S HISTORY!
Coney Island’s oldest remaining building to be demolished
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
It’s out with the old, in with
the boom!
Coney Island’s oldest remaining
building will be demolished,
according to a local
historian and city records.
The Department of Buildings
in January approved
a demolition application
for the more than 130-yearold
Grashorn Building on
Surf Avenue between Jones
Walk and W. 12th Street,
news of which local historian
Charlie Denson, the executive
director of the Coney
Island History Project,
revealed on March 4.
Entrepreneur Henry
Grashorn fi rst erected the
three-story building in the
late 1880s, opening a hardware
store on the ground
fl oor where amusement-park
operators purchased tools to
make repairs on their nearby
rides, according to Denson,
who said Grashorn operated
the top two fl oors as a hotel.
In 1971, amusement operator
Wally Roberts purchased
the property, refashioning the
ground fl oor into an arcade,
and using the top two fl oors
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LPC okays
theater’s
next act
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’re shoring up this iconic
façade!
Architects will restore
the exterior of Coney Island’s
landmarked Shore Theater
to much of its former glory
as part of a developer’s plan
to turn it into a hotel and spa
with retail space, after members
of the city’s Landmarks
Preservation Commission
approved an amended plan
for the building’s façade on
March 12.
The new scheme fulfi lls
the preservation agency’s earlier
request that the builder
include more details to honor
the history of the iconic site
and its home neighborhood,
according to a city preservationist.
“I think it strikes a very
nice balance between where
you’re trying to convey a certain
kind of image for the hotel,
and connecting to the history
of Coney Island,” said
Landmarks Commissioner
Jeanne Lutfy.
Continued on page 12
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