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Apply for a Coney Spark Microgrant and bring your vision to life in Coney Island. Learn More
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Introducing our Coney Spark Micro Grant Program
Your Small Business Launch Pad for the Coney Island Community
The Coney Magic Spark Microgrant is a one-time, unrestricted $2,000 cash award given to each of three selected applicants who are launching a small business physically located in the 11224 ZIP code (Coney Island). Grants are intended to help cover start-up expenses—licenses, supplies, first inventory, marketing, security deposit, or other immediate needs that will get a storefront, service, or creative pop-up open and serving the neighborhood.
✨ This Grant exists because of the incredible generosity of our community! Every dollar comes from funds raised through our GoFundMe campaign and our recent benefit event. We are so grateful to all the amazing performers and artists who shared their talents, to Rubulad for donating their space, and to every single person who contributed — whether big or small. Thanks to you, we can support local entrepreneurs, keep the creative spirit of Coney Island alive, and show that when our community comes together, dreams really do take flight in Coney Island ✨
Our Vision:
We implore the Elected Officials and the City of New York to:
Support a broad mix of small businesses with unique, creative visions on City owned land. Not one dominant corporate entity
Create a local Business Association led by independent operators and small business owners which will help to attract more unique small businesses and support the small creative businesses currently in Coney Island.
Foster an authentic year-round economy in line with Coney Island’s legacy through the creation of small business incubator programs which help to bring more unique small businesses back to Coney Island, restoring it’s creative presence ,
Keep Coney Island the People’s Playground- affordable, inclusive, and weird—in the best way possible
Who Really Controls Coney? And Why?
Public Land, Private Power: What the City Must Address
This is public land. It should serve the public good.
Much of Coney Island’s amusement area is owned by the City and managed by the EDC. Most of this publicly owned land has been handed over to one private corporation to develop and manage.
Many feel that public land has become inaccessible to the very people it was meant to uplift—the local community, small business owners, and New Yorkers.
What It Really Means to Save Coney Island
Go Back to the Roots. Build Forward with Soul.
A Vision Rooted in History and Justice:
Reinvest in independent businesses and diverse ownership models
Empower local community programming & small businesses
Create a sustainable year round economy on this public land through transparent and inclusive lease policies which allow more creative small businesses to open on this City owned land rather than letting it be monopolized by one corporation.
