Goodbye Coney Island

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Brooklyn's historic Coney Island may be in for some historic change. Development company Thor Equities has bought up most of the amusement district and has asked all of its boardwalk tenants including the historic Astroland Park to be out by October. The community is concerned about plans to build high rise apartments, or worse yet, build nothing at all.
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  • video added September 26, 2007

7 comments // Goodbye Coney Island // Video

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    a good summary of everything that's wrong with residential development right now.

    flatlandprometheus
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    no more astroland???? but the cyclone is the best rollercoaster EVER. so much scarier on wood than these new-fangled contraptions...

    willbpayne
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    The Cyclone is a historic landmark--THAT will stay--but everything else? Who knows....

    dbeckmann
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    http://www.thinkwelldesign.com/what_we_do/master_con...
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    ThatÂ’s a sad, sad, pod and everything, but check out this link. My friends over at Thinkwell Design are working hard to master plan a new Coney Island that not only includes the historic Cyclone, but also revitalizes and restores the park. The new vision for Coney Island will turn a crusty old Brooklyn eyesore into a fun, safe, all-American landmark. Boo-hoo!

    Super_Steve
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    What a shame... progress is not always progressive. Coney Island! For goodness sake! More people have visited Coney Island then probably any other attraction in the country since the 1860''s No?
    Is this not the place where electricity was first witnessed by the public?
    This little slice of Brooklynacana has withstood the test of time over and over. It has survived fires, poverty, drugs, reckless developers, depression and recessions, and of course... a Trump or two. What more does a historic destination have to do, to be allowed to exist?
    Is it always about the money? Is it? I''m sure there are families out there with or without two nickels to rub together, who will never again be able to find another place like this. Where they will be able to go as a family and escape whatever modest or not existence they have, enjoy the ocean, amusements, the freaks, others like themselves, or the boardwalk like they could at Coney Island.
    There is no other place like it anywhere, shouldn''t that be reason enough for it to continue to prosper?
    I have been going to Coney Island for about 50 years. The first time I realized something was up there.. was around the late seventies early eighties is when Nathan''s went from being like a city block in size, to the size of a McDonald''s counter. I remember running in there as a kid, looking for the "Chow Mein Buns" sign. Of course the Hot Dogs were perfect, but Chow Mein on a bun? Come on...
    Please, please, please... I hope the current developers have a sense of the history and magic of Coney Island, and try to incorporate it into whatever plans they have in mind for it''s next reincarnation.

    why_y_not
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    i saw the last fireworks display on labor day weekend
    it was so sad to know that the tradition might disappear altogether

    bowtiekittydish
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    Beautifully depressing, thanks for sharing this for everyone

    cats4change
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