Well this gives a whole new meaning to those amusement park height requirement signs! Last night we received a flurry of tips about how the Future of Coney Island website, launched in 2007 by Thor Equities, has become a porn website. Not only that, one tipster wrote in: "when clicked on, a warning message came up from Norton saying an attempt to hijack my computer had just been blocked. The risk name was Malicious Toolkit Variant and the risk level was High." The site is registered under GoDaddy and lists a contact as "Davina Cukier," whose Google results aren't very G-rated.
While no one has wanted to click on the URL after warnings showed up on the Coney Island message board, it looks like the Brooklyn Paper boys took one for the team, and report back that the site is now indeed hawking “the best porn on the Net.” They also note that this wasn't the work of hackers, but Thor let the site expire on purpose, a decision that has "cast new doubt on the developer’s interest in continuing his battle with city officials over a zoning change that he needs in order to build his 24-7-365 amusement, hotel and retail complex."
The URL isn't the only thing Thor has let go, the blue walls surrounding their property are reportedly "neglected, fallen, and exposing the dumpster site he's created with garbage bags and junk." It looks like while the future of Coney Island turns to porn, the past and present are falling apart. WCBS also has aerial shots of Astroland's ongoing destruction (last week the rocket took flight from the area, and though no one knows where it will land, a statement in the near future has been promised).
