Coney Island Community Center Plans to be Announced

With all the plans by Thor Equities and other developers to bring a major upscaling, including luxury housing, to Coney Island, plans for a long awaited community center will be unveiled today. The 40,000-square-foot facility will be built on Surf Avenue and include two pools and a basketball court. Details are reported by Jotham Sederstrom in today's Daily News:

Beside the pools, the two-story center is slated to include an aerobics center, computer lab, social room, training room and a basketball court, beneath 150 units of co-op housing, developer Larry Hirschfield said.

The housing, which will help fund the center, will cost from $89,000 to $500,000, for a three-bedroom unit, said Hirschfield, who said construction won't begin for a year.

The center, which will be built on vacant, city-owned land and operated by the YMCA, will be managed in a similar fashion as a community center in Brooklyn Heights that also includes low-income and affordable housing. The housing, which will help fund the center, will cost from $89,000 to $500,000, for a three-bedroom unit, said Hirschfield, who said construction won't begin for a year.

The center, which will be built on vacant, city-owned land and operated by the YMCA, will be managed in a similar fashion as a community center in Brooklyn Heights that also includes low-income and affordable housing.

The facility has been said to be in the works for some time.