Though Pols Support It, Plastic Plank Plan for Coney Boardwalk Saddens Others
CONEY ISLAND — The city’s Public Design Commission decision on Monday to approve the plan to repave part of Coney Island’s wooden boardwalk with a combination of plastic planks and concrete is final, but sadness among the plan’s detractors lingers.
The commission met Monday to discuss the proposal from the city Parks Department. Its approval was the last step needed to move forward with the plan.
More than three dozen people spoke against the plan to make over stretches of the aging, 2.7-mile Brooklyn boardwalk. They carried signs that said “Boardwalk, not sidewalk.”