Coney Island needs your support now more than ever - if you have time to write a letter or sign a petition, volunteer or help get the word out visit here

http://www.saveconeyisland.net/

From Angie Pontani

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Hey Everyone,
Excuse the mass email, but Coney Island is in dire straights. I know we all love it and I know many of us consider it a performance home. Now we need to put out down time where our mouth is and volunteer to help save it from a potential devastating future.
The City Planning Commission passed their crappy plan today. It still has to go through a few more levels, but they voted 12 - 0! for a crappy 9 acres of open air amusement and high rises on surf ave. We need to turn up the heat!
PLEASE VOLUNTEER! SIGN THE PETITION!
You don't know what you've got till it's gone!
information on volunteering here
http://tinyurl.com/l5xtd6

total 411 here!
www.saveconeyisland.net

we can be a major part of this movement! Don't stand by idly as the city and developers destroy a national treasure!
Locals, please give some of your time, if not on saturday you can volunteer any time! Out of towners, please sign the petition!

Little Egypt shook her sh*T on the corner of W. 12th and Stillwell, build a statue, not a strip mall!
xoAP

ANGIE PONTANI
MISS EXOTIC WORLD 2008
MISS CYCLONE 2008

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Sign the petition on the link above.
It takes 60 seconds.

This is a great NYC item.
It seems the Cooper Square Hotel, a fairly new high end boutique which is actually on the Bowery, has a back patio for its bar. And of course behind the hotel are the rear sides of tenament apartment buildings. So of course in the nice weather the tenants in the apartments have started to complain about the noise from the bar patrons on the hotel patio at night. What have the tenants started to do? Hang extremely soiled underwear on their laundry lines over the patio. And this week what appeared on one line was a douchebag! Somehow, I find fighting gentrification with a douchebag kind of glorious. Here's a link to photos of the conflict:
Enjoy the view you drunken slobs!

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Love it. Thank you for sharing it!

Coming next door to you soon:

Eeeeewwwww.

This exhibit sounds fantastic, and Ill definately be attending.

October 17th 18th, and 21st-

The Body Archive New York City is Proud to Present:

WEST STREET: Photos of the night life on West Street, In the old Meat Packing District.
Photos by Efrain John Gonzalez

Place : THE BODY ARCHIVE GALLERY
#9 Ninth Ave, between 13th street and little west 12th, on the west side of Ninth Ave, second floor


On October 17th, 18th, and the 21st, I will be giving an exhibit of my photos, rare and raw images, showing the night life under the old West Side Highway, from 1975, up to the 1990’s. B&W photos that record the transgender life along the West Village/meat packing district of New York City, at a time when the night life was wild and the clubs were “anything goes”. This was Hand held night photography with TRI_X film of the real people of the street and their culture; working and surviving on the dark streets of an industrial wasteland, using their transgender beauty to earn the cash to survive in New York City. An incredible photographic documentary of the people and street life in a time long gone.

The BODY ARCHIVE is located in the old Meatpacking district, surviving the gentrification that has changed a dark, run down industrial block, into a hip urbanized club-land, filled with restaurants, luxury Hotels and fashionable boutiques. The photos you will see are a time capsule to the past life that once thrived in the deserted night time streets

Please come and see my work, exhibited on the very street where it was created.

Sat:4-10pm Sun:2-7pm Wed:5-9

Contact: gonzoonfirst@erols.com

Thank you,
Efrain John Gonzalez

Shatteringly glorious.
Hopefully there will be at least one shot of a line of wildthings bending around the corner of Washington St. on to W. 14th.

Now this is something I wish I could see.