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...Thursday night, and at Buddakan, a restaurant in Manhattan's ultra-trendy Meatpacking District, friends Lisa Natt-Irom and Jeanne DiGangi and their husbands are sitting down to an intimate dinner with 18 complete strangers. "Hi, I'm Jeanne," says DiGangi, 42, as she slides into her seat at the 30-ft.-long table that is the centerpiece of the room. "Have you eaten here before? What's your favorite thing? You have to try the butternut-squash dumplings!" she says before taking a breath and introducing the rest of her party...
...entirely festive. Uncertainty shrouds the original America's Playground, from the wood-trestled Cyclone roller coaster to the billboard counting down the days until Nathan's annual hot-dog-eating contest. An ambitious real estate developer has bought up two-thirds of Coney Island's main amusement district, and no one is quite sure what will become of it in the fall. "I've been telling everyone to live it up this summer," says Dianna Carlin, who sells T shirts in a pink-walled shop by the beach. "This could be the last season of Coney Island as we know...
...unease is in the air. Sitt has also included a 40-story residential building in his plans. He says amusements aren't profitable on their own, but locals fear that housing in the amusement district would water down Coney Island's noisy eccentricity. The Cyclone and Wonder Wheel are national landmarks, but Sitt's company now plays landlord to most of the rest of Coney Island's rides. The locals are particularly concerned, since some of Sitt's actions-- he demolished go-karts and batting cages this winter, long before he could start building anything to replace them--evoke...
...love my job serving in the House of Representatives and representing the people of Cambridge and the 25th Middlesex District,” said Wolf, who would not have had to give up her seat...
While the state senate seat has been held by the progressive Barrios since 2002, political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71 said that Wolf, a former Cambridge mayor, might have had a tough time attracting votes in less liberal parts of the district, such as Everett and Revere...