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$3B Coney Island casino plan rejected by community board committee in potentially fatal blow

Plans to open a controversial $3 billion casino on Coney Island’s fabled boardwalk could be crapping out.  The land-use committee for Brooklyn’s Community Board 13 delivered a potentially lethal blow to the Thor Equities-led development team’s glitzy “The Coney” project on Wednesday, rejecting an application to close some local streets and purchase air rights to…