“Shoot the Freak” owner to sue over eviction after Zamperla razes site

The owner of Coney Island’s “Shoot the Freak” is planning to sue boardwalk operator Zamperla USA for wrongful eviction after the company bulldozed and boarded up his business yesterday without warning. Anthony Berlingieri, who also operates the nearby Beer Island bar that faces the boot from Zamperla, told the Post he was in “shock” yesterday after returning to the site of his legendary paintball game and finding only the signage — crooked and broken — remaining. Zamperla, which plans to turn the site into a boardwalk entrance for the new “Scream Zone” amusement park that will open next summer, had served Berlingieri and several other boardwalk businesses eviction papers Nov. 1. A judge was scheduled to hear challenges from those businesses next month, though Zamperla holds that it was within its rights to begin clearing them out. [Post]

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