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FLIPPIN’ OUT Ruff times
BUMPER BATTLE: Francesco La Rocca looks on as Mike Pantino shoots for the high score inside Sunshine Laundromat,
which will host this year’s statewide pinball championship on Jan. 19. Photo by Caroline Ourso
Medicinal-weed center Coney brewery expanding
opens in Kings County
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’ll drink to that!
The beer makers at Coney
Island Brewery are
expanding into a space
roughly three times the
size of their current home,
complete with a second full
bar pouring fi ve new beers
on tap, a kitchen, and an
G’point hosting
State’s pinball
championship
They sure play a mean pinball!
An international cadre of elite
pinball wizards hailing from
such exotic locales as Texas and
Canada will gather in Greenpoint
19 — the New York State Pinball
Championship.
“This is the best players in
New York and other states playing
chance to become New York State
Champion,” said Windsor Terrace
director Francesco La Rocca.
The epic battle of the bumpers
— now in its sixth year — will
play out at the legendary pinball
through a hidden door into a beer
bar featuring 30 multi-ball-spewing
area for events, according
to managers.
The suds spot’s seasonal
success prompted
the enlargement, according
to its front-of-house
manager, who said the new
space will accommodate
more than twice as many
brew fans when it opens
BY COLIN MIXSON
for the Empire State’s premier
fl ipper showdown on Jan.
against each other for a
resident and championship
haunt Sunshine Laundromat,
where contenders will step
fun boxes.
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this summer.
“Obviously Coney Island
is a seasonal place,
and during the summer we
struggle to fi t everybody in
here — we pack out completely,”
said Katherine
Telesca.
The bigger Coney Island
for P’Park
dog run
BY COLIN MIXSON
This dog-run project is moving at
a crawl.
Construction of a long-awaited
pup playground at the Prospect
Park Parade Ground ground to a
halt after the contractor chosen
for the project decided not to take
the job, a spokeswoman for the
Department of Parks and Recreation
said.
The agency originally set a
November 2018 deadline to wrap
its year-long process of putting
a contractor in place for the
$640,000 job that a trio of local
pols funded back in 2017.
And the surprise withdrawal
of its fi rst-choice outfi t will now
delay the project by at least fi ve
months as offi cials scramble to
hire their second-choice bidder,
according to rep Maeri Ferguson,
who said department bigwigs
hope to secure all necessary
approvals by April.
Contractors typically have
12 months to complete projects
for the Parks Department, so
the recent snafu could push the
dog run’s opening back to spring
BY COLIN MIXSON
It’s high time!
Brooklyn’s fi rst medical
marijuana dispensary
opened across the street
from the Barclays Center on
Dec. 30, offi cially starting
the sales of legal, weed-based
remedies in the borough, according
to a spokeswoman
for the facility.
Qualifying patients
registered with the state’s
Department of Health will
fi nd the shelves at Citiva
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CHEERS: Brewery managers
Victoria Pitula, left, and
Katherine Telesca toasted to
its forthcoming expansion.
Photo by Julianne McShane
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