Arts & Culture

Brooklyn Jews Worried Neil Sedaka Might Rock too Hard

By Jason Diamond / June 22, 2010

Coney Island, once the playground of the world, then a really good place to score drugs and get beat up by The Warriors, is now a place that can’t handle getting rocked by the guy who sang "Breaking up is Hard to Do."

Residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood are trying to fight Borough President Marty Markowitz’s summer concert series, saying the shows break city law prohibiting amplified sound within 500 feet of an active school or religious institution.  Two Jewish institutions, Temple Beth Abraham and Sea Breeze Jewish Center, are within that zone.

While we know the kind of debauchery that can take place during a show featuring The Beach Boys (sans Brian Wilson), The Turtles, and Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees, we need to agree with Marty’ assessment that this whole thing is "a shonde!" 

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  • mary jane wortheim
    By starstudzzz 8/12/10 at 2:26 p.m. UTC

    These protesters were rocking out to Turtles, Monkees, and Neil Sedaka jams back in their hay day! Now they want to whine?! Why doesn’t the Sea Breeze Jewish Center just take an out of town field trip the day of the concert?

     Who can hate on Neil Sedaka?? He’s a living legend! Have you seen this recent interview? Love him!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0ZFda5dzE

     Can the cry babies even HEAR the music anyway? Plug in some ear plugs and take a nap!

  • By Another Rachel 6/23/10 at 1:31 p.m. UTC

    I saw Blondie at one of these shows a year or so back.  It was one of the tamest things I’ve ever seen. 

  • Avi Kaplan
    By The Notorious Avi 6/22/10 at 5:25 p.m. UTC

    John Legend is playing this years series.  Has he really slipped that far that he’s already playing the old timer circuit? 

  • By The Jewish Dream 6/22/10 at 4:33 p.m. UTC

    I wouldn’t want Neil Sedaka in my neighborhood, either.  Mickey Dolenz, maybe. 

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