The CIDC Wants To Help The Unemployed With A Job Fair

The Coney Island Development Corporation starts has created a workshop that is geared to aid Coney locals in being better equipped at obtaining jobs. In response to many requests by various areas of the community, the CIDC is conducting the communities first large Career Opportunities Fair.

From the CIDC announcement:
Schedule of events:

Resume Basics -- Friday, June 13 -- 11am to 1pm -- Coney Island Branch Library

Nontraditional Employment for Women Information Session -- Wednesday, June 18, 6 to 7:30pm -- NYCHA Carey Gardens Community Center

Job Search Techniques -- Thursday, June 26, 6 to 7:30pm -- South Brooklyn Youth Consortium

Interview Skills and Dress for Success -- Tuesday, July 8 -- 11am to 1pm -- Keyspan Park Gallery

How to Get a Civil Service Job -- Thursday, July 17 -- 2 to 3pm -- Coney Island Branch Library.

(Click image to view flyer)

Coney Events: BadAss Hookers On The Beach

Pimp daddy Formika hosts a hothouse full of HOOKERS! at the Coney Island Sideshow




BadAss Burlesque's Hookers On The Beach
Friday, June 6th
10pm
$15
At the Coney Island Sideshow Theater!!!
1208 Surf Avenue Brooklyn NY, 11224

"Song Of Brooklyn" America's Favorite Borough

The book by Marc Eliot is a based on interviews and stories from legendary figures that help shape the cultural explosiveness that was and now still is Brooklyn, New York.

The New York Post writes:

Even though Brooklyn is still rowdy, tough and energetic, it is also now hip, elegant and wealthy. How it can be all those things at once is simply one of the many mysteries of the borough. This charming history sings a song of Brooklyn's immense complexity.

The book opens with none other than our fabled and iconic neighborhood of Coney Island.

NY Post:

The entrepreneurship, hucksterism and drive of those who converted its glorious
waterfront into one of the most loved amusement parks of all time roil and roll like the Cyclone. As with so many Brooklyn neighborhoods, Coney's story is one of greatness, decline unto near death, followed by the long climb back.

WCBS disc jockey Don K. Reed ("Doo Wop Shop") points out a recurring New York tragedy when he talks about the government-induced destruction of Coney. "You know what killed me about that?" he asks about urban renewal. "When they tore down the Steeplechase, I think it was 1964, the square block it had been on stayed empty for more than 35 years." In 2001 the city finally opened Keyspan Park for a minor-league team owned by the Mets.

Eliot is hopeful that developer Joe Sitt will be able to bring Coney back to renown. He named his company, Thor Equities, after his favorite comic book hero, says Sitt, because Thor was the "protector of the Planet Earth's buildings from the evil goblins from outer space seeking to destroy them." I'd been thinking that Sitt's rather ostentatious ideas were closer to goblin plans than protecting the Earth, but maybe he's got the right level of grandiosity to bring this off.

Coney Events: New Coney Beers Premiere Party

The Coney Island Lager from Schmaltz Brewing Company is to gain three new beer companions this summer. They are the Albino Python White [spiced lager, orange peel, ginger, coriander, fennel), the Sword Swallower Steel Hop Lager (4 malts, 8 hops - dry hopped with Amarillo, Crystal and Cascade), and the Human Blockhead Tough-as-Nails Lager (8.8%)


New Coney Beers Premiere Party
Wednesday, June 4th
7pm
$5 pints!
at The Gate
321 Fifth Avenue (& 3rd street), Brooklyn, New York

Coney Events: Sideshows By The Seashore's Summer Season

From the Coney Island USA website:

Come on down this summer and witness the theatrical experience that started it all. It's a tradition that can't be stopped! Thrill to the secrets of the last 10-in-1 circus sideshow in the nation! Witness Donny Vomit performing death defying acts of bravery! See Angelica do the stunning fire dance with your own eyes! Sigh as Heather Holliday, the world's cutest female sword swallower performs her miraculous act. You'll be mesmerized by Serpentina the Snake Charmer awed by our Twisted Shockmeister, Scott Baker and introducing our newest cast members BLACK SCORPION and NICK KNACK.

They're all real and they are all alive. Only in Coney Island!

Sideshow By The Seashore
Friday, 2pm-8pm, weather permitting!
Saturday and Sunday, 1pm-8pm, weather
$7.50 for adults, $5 for children under 12
at the Sideshows by the Seashore
Corner of Surf and West 12th Street

'Ruby's Host' Gives Us The UnDirt On Ruby's

Image courteys of Ruby's Host (Flickr.com)

This past week the blogs reported on the messy incident that occurred at Ruby's Bar on the Coney Island boardwalk. The man who fell through the floor ten feet into the dark lower level of the bar was not covered in shit.

Di, "Ruby's Host" on Flickr has been sending out e-mails to the press regarding the issue. Here is an excerpt an one of here emails to Kinetic Carnival.

Excerpts from Dianne’s (Ruby’s Host) email to Kinetic Carnival:

As you know – last Saturday evening the floor of Ruby’s partially collapsed in the men’s bathroom while someone was using the urinal. It was about a 10' drop to the bar underneath. Some may or may not know that the bar underneath was a full hoppin’ bar at one time. Last year a few of us were down there salvage a few old signs. The downstairs bar has been closed for more than thirty five years. There are still bar old stools, equipment, refrigerators, grills, and all kinds of stuff. Thank goodness when the man feel it was in the back part - in a corner where there is nothing but the dirt floor. (no shit). Also a ton of cobwebs, etc. My friend Michael got a ladder and went down to help the man as the FDNY & Paramedics showed up. The NYPD also showed to help along with security. After everything was assessed Ruby’s was closed for the night. Ruby’s was told since the collapse was in the very back – the outside seating could remain open for the holiday along with a small part of the bar. Fortunately, the lady’s restroom was redone last October, 2007 - before closing for the winter season. The men’s restroom was due to be completed this year. As well all already know, the good part of the story is that Ruby’s is splitting the cost of the floor with the landlord; Mr. Sitt. Shocking huh? Mr. Sitt along with Michael-Melody & Cindy (the owners) want Ruby’s to remain open so he is helping pay for the floor as well as sending an engineer as required now by the building inspector. Ruby’s opened this weekend. It still early enough in the season that it should work out and they should not loose too much money. The good part is that Mr. Sitt wants Ruby’s to stay, so hopefully that is a good sign of things to come and maybe that strip of stores can remain on the boardwalk. We know we have a couple more years at least - maybe even forever!

Coney Events: Cowboy Chris' Cowgirlesque!

From the Coney Island USA website:

Cowboy Chris' Cowgirlesque!
Howdy there buckaroos and buckarettes! We're proud to announce the first performance of Chris McDaniels' new show "Cowgirlesque!" A Wild West Revue starring Angelica, the 'hottest' cowgirl in town! Plum Manchego, with her incredible Patsy Cline tribute plus a totally new number! Remy Vicious, our own sexy 'outlaw' and Rosie 151, Gunsmoke's 'Miss Kitty' has got nuthin' on our favorite saloon gal And of course, your Master of Ceremonies Chris McDaniels on whips and ropes!

Come on out and hoot n' holler with the Cowgirls and Cowboys! It's a 'show-deo' you'll never forget!

Cowboy Chris' Cowgirlesque!
Burlesque at the Beach
Thurs, June 5
10pm $10.
at Sideshows By The Seashore
Corner of Surf and West 12th Street