When Councilman Domenic Recchia came out in favor of evicting eight mom-and-pop businesses from the Coney Island Boardwalk, he argued that they "made a lot of money paying cheap rent all these years... They had plenty of chances to buy these properties and fix them up, but they never did." Today one of the owners, Tina Georgoulakos of Boardwalk snack stand Paul's Daughter, tells Amusing the Zillion that's balderdash.
"It hurts me to hear such untruths about Paul’s Daughter," says Georgoulakos. "I’ve been handcuffed by one year leases for years and years. And I would have given anything to have been given the opportunity to purchase the property but it was never offered and by the way it sold for 32 million dollars to [Joe] Sitt. I pay $100,000 for seven months. I guess some people don’t think that’s a lot."
