Council Speaker Christine Quinn is now actively involved in the negotiations over whether developer Joseph Sitt will get to build his controversial $1.5 billion entertainment complex in the heart of Coney Island, officials said yesterday.
Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., who represents Coney Island, said that with Quinn on board he was more confident an agreement could be reached with the city, “whether it’s a compromise or a form of the current plan,” which includes time-share apartments that the Bloomberg administration opposes.
Recchia, who brokered a deal to keep Astroland open next year only to see the agreement fall apart, said he believed the park would be back in 2008.
Recchia said Sitt told him that if a deal can’t be reached, he would find a new amusement operator for the Astroland property.