{"id":219,"date":"2010-08-12T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:03:06","slug":"am-ny-restarts-the-coney-island-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/2010\/am-ny-restarts-the-coney-island-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"AM NY Restarts the Coney Island Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/coney_amny.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[219]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/coney_amny-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/coney_amny-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/coney_amny.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe cover page of today&#8217;s AM NY newspaper is a testament to the potential future of our beloved Coney Island. The area&#8217;s revitalization has been an on again-off again hot topic for years and the conversation appears to be back on the table.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The waning days of summer are always bittersweet on Coney Island. But in recent years, the angst isn\u2019t just a simple case of the end-of-season blues. It\u2019s a gnawing uncertainty about how much of Coney\u2019s treasured lore will survive into the next summer.<br \/>\n&#8211; Rolando Pujol, <em>AM NY<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever fate may be in store for Coney Island, there is no denying the history, legacy and magical story behind this world-renowned attraction. ACEFEST is excited to be screening <a title=\"Last Summer at Coney Island screening\" href=\"http:\/\/acefest.com\/tickets\/films\/last-summer-at-coney-island.php\"><strong>Last Summer at Coney Island<\/strong><\/a> in this year&#8217;s lineup. Please join us on this truly wonderful journey, led by master documentarian JL Aronson.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"AM NY PDF\" href=\"http:\/\/longisland.newsday.com\/gallery\/galleries\/amny\/pdf\/20100812.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the Aug 12 edition of AM NY PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Last Summer at Coney Island\u2019 plays Sat, Aug 21 at 3:20pm<br \/>\n<a title=\"Coney Island documentary screening at ACEFEST\" href=\"http:\/\/acefest.com\/tickets\/films\/last-summer-at-coney-island.php\">Tickets \/ Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover page of today&#8217;s AM NY newspaper is a testament to the potential future of our beloved Coney Island. The area&#8217;s revitalization has been an on again-off again hot topic for years and the conversation appears to be back on the table. The waning days of summer are always bittersweet on Coney Island. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,234,231,236,53,238,237],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-amusement-park","tag-coney-island","tag-documentary","tag-history","tag-movie","tag-screening","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acefest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}