Good Bye Coney Island Astroland
Posted on September 12th, 2008 at 10:00 pm by Joergen

Astroland has closed it’s doors officially on September 7, 2008. The Albert family sold the property to Thor Equity in 2006, who will be redeveloping the area into a $1.5b resort. (With the current economy, that plan might take a bit longer.) According to wiki, the Alberts agreed to maintain the Cyclone roller coaster, and will probably relocate some of the landmarks like the tower. The parachute jump is already a landmark, but the Wonderwheel will probably become history. Together with the Coney Island shots from last year, here and below is my homage to THE New York amusement park:

Edit: I guess in a couple of years of legal back and forth between the city and the developers we will know if Coney Island will look like this abandoned South Korean amusement park, or more like Las Vegas.

Each about 350 megapixel or more.

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