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Daily News from New York, New York • 222

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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222
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Coney Still Queen of World Resorts GoMstein said Soma officials call for double the present number, also more mounted police. right now, declared Goldstein. "For a 15c subway ride you can buy admission to fiva miles cf sunny boardwalk." There you have the Atlantic's salty breezes blending with the aroma of hot franks and frozen custards and the sights and sounds of carnival "that he said, "a touch of fairyland into everyday life." diamond in Rough, Says CC With increasing numbers of visitors coming- to Coney Island, civic leaders urge additional attractions. Besides the famed Steeplechase Bark, the roller coasters and myriad other exciting fun centers they suggest the city pay half the cost of a many-million dollar project. This would include -a circular.arena with retracting roof for open-air events that would seat 14,000.

It would cost $34 million. Also a two-level By FREDA STERN Over the Labor Day weekend, Coney Island expects to greet the greatest crowd visitors in her 76-year history, an estimated 3'2 million. In fact, if all Coney Island's delectable knishes and juicy frankfurters which are being readied for the anticipated Isabella Council Picnic Sept. 17 milux were placed end to There were close to 200 arrests in Coney Island for felonies and misdemeanors. These include pavilion to contain dressing Mem hern of Isabella Counc Council, a rooms for bathers shops restau- hts Columbu9 wi hoW rants and space for dancing in 1 summer! ice skating in winter.

picnic for their families ai and purse snatching? and muggings, particularly on the sand, under friends Sept. 17 at Dodey's picnic But the world's greatest play the boardwalk. More patrolmen are needed park. Cooper and Central Ave. ground can't be beat for value Soon to Be Centenarian Officials of the Evangelical Home for the Aped, at 1420 Bushwick Brooklyn, report that one of their residents, Emma Goetze, will be 100 years Id on 31.

Miss Goetze has been a resident at the home for 20 vears. end, who knows how far they'd reach into space? Sensitive to recent stories of crime outbreaks there, Joseph Goldstein, president of the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce, yesterday produced these glowing- forecasts, declaring Coney despite "an- occasional trouble" is still queen playground of the world. He ascribed the recent rash of disturbances to "an outcropping of youthful exuberance." "When you get two or three million people in one place you're bound to have a few scraps. But they're quickly ami efficiently bandied by lifeguards and he said. Floodlights I'rged That's a good record, he re Coney Island may be a somewhat rakish lady amor.fr world-famous resorts but "'she's still the greatest." Goldstein declares.

Which Way Is Coney? "You can see visitors from Walla Walla. to Weehaw-ken. X. minting on the boardwalk with colorfully costumed people from U.N delegations, he said. "A famous reoert visitor.

Gen. Ie(iaulle. was taken to- the top of the State nidiiifr for the panoramic view. at was this famous Frenchman's comment to Mayor "Wagr.er? "Wrier: way is Coney The boardwalk is 'till unsurpassed, adds the civic leader. Coney Island's a r.

is the whitest, -and "no imitators anywhere in the world can offer the glamor and fun that's here." lie compared other famous report playgrounds he visited tn the West Coast and in Europe with Coney, and each, came out second or third best. Sees More Cop Needed r- 'V lieves; when vou consider so many people. Civic officials, -with uck exuberance or more in mind, are urging the Park Department to install floodlights on beach cd boardwalk to deter possible troublemakers. On hot nights between 5.1'Hi and lO.t't'O people Jeep on the beach. All the excitement and dazzle carnival spirit of other decades is very much there, at-' tiactirig tourists from every part the country as always, according to Goldstein, who recalls when the hroadwalk was tuilt, ariy in the century.

Business has been humming at uch a rate this season that the Chamber of Commerce announces all previous years' records have been topped. One major eatery. fr example, is doubling its space. But the attractive picture hen painted was somewhat tarnished by police officials' comments. July, they said, marked the greatest number of arrests and convictions in a five-year period.

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