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BID DEAL: A map showing the area that would be served by the proposed bid.
CONEY BID
would also set the revenue-generating
taxes within the district, which are determined
using a formula based on the
type of property, its assessed value,
and its square footage, according to
Alliance reps, who added that the
taxes would also pay the salaries of a
full-time staff that manages the bid’s
day-to-day operations.
Annual taxes levied on businesses
and buildings in Coney’s amusement
district — which bid proponents said
would average more than $6,700 per entity
— would foot nearly 75 percent of
the organization’s $1.2 yearly budget,
with taxes on Mermaid Avenue properties
— averaging more than $1,600
per entity each year — footing about 16
percent, and taxes on Neptune Avenue
businesses — averaging more than
$15,000 per entity each year — footing
about 13 percent.
The higher annual taxes on Neptune
Avenue properties are due to
the generally larger average square
footage of businesses in the area,
which include Applebee’s and the
various eateries inside the Coney Island
Stillwell Avenue subway station,
according to Silversmith.
BRAVEST
owner, the Post reported.
Both drivers pulled over on the side
of the parkway near Exit Four to 14th
Avenue-Bay Eighth Street following
the collision, which damaged the driver’s
side of the suspect’s four-wheeler,
cops said.
Offi cers from the 62nd Precinct responding
to a 911 call following the
incident arrived at the scene around
4:50 am, and found 33-year-old Ditmas
Parker Faizal Coto — a member of New
York’s Bravest with Coney Island’s Engine
245 — unconscious and unresponsive
on the pavement next to his car,
cops said.
Paramedics then rushed Coto to
Coney Island Hospital where doctors
pronounced him dead, police said.
The city’s medical examiner determined
Coto died from blunt force
trauma to the head, according to a
spokeswoman, and the suspect reportedly
smashed the victim in the skull
with an unknown object during the fatal
Alliance for Coney Island
attack, according to CBS News .
But the medical examiner’s spokeswoman
could not confi rm whether the
suspect hit Coto with an object, and
a Police Department spokeswoman
could not confi rm that the pair got
into an argument that resulted in the
deadly blow.
Continued from cover
Opponents of the proposed bid argue
they shouldn’t have to shell out
more cash for some of its services,
such as cleaning streets outside their
shops, which some say they do free of
charge themselves.
But advocates — including those
from the Alliance — defended the
idea by highlighting that the money
goes back into the pockets of entrepreneurs
through supplemental services,
such as street beautifi cation, that they
would not receive otherwise.
Alliance leaders began fl oating
their idea for the bid last June, after
wrapping a study with the city’s smallbusiness
services agency on Coney’s
commercial needs, challenges, and opportunities
for growth.
The study showed that nearly 12
percent of storefronts on the neighborhood’s
major business corridors are
vacant, a fi gure nearly twice the city’s
average.
Supporters of the bid expect its public
review process — which includes
going before the local community
board, the City Planning Commission,
Council, and Mayor DeBlasio — to
take about a year, during which they
promised to keep sharing feedback on
the plan, and continue to engage with
entrepreneurs to build more support
for it, Silversmith said.
Continued from cover
DECEASED: The suspect allegedly killed
fi refi ghter Faizal Coto, a member of Engine
245 in Coney Island. FDNY
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