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Can You Identify This Mystery Object at Coney Island’s Luna Park?

Posted in amusement park, tagged , , , , , , on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Photographer Bruce Handy, who has been chronicling the Birth of Luna Park, says the first shipping containers arrived from Italy on Monday. What is the unidentified red object in the photo? Could it be a footing for the Tickler roller coaster that we wrote about the other day? Or is it part of another Zamperla [...]

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Photo of the Day: Interior of Coney Island’s Doomed Henderson Music Hall

Posted in Coney Island Redevelopment, historic preservation, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »

This is the seldom-seen interior of the Henderson Building, which Thor Equities has announced plans to demolish and replace with a one-story shopping mall. Is this building “structurally questionable and potentially dangerous” as Thor’s press release claims? We don’t think so, nor does Save Coney Island, which issued their own press release today condemning Thor’s [...]

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Thor’s Coney Island: Joey “Bulldozer” Sitt Is Baaack Playing Games!

Posted in Coney Island Redevelopment, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Regular readers may remember the above cartoon from last summer’s post “Joe Sitt Plays in His Coney Island Sandbox” (ATZ, July 21, 2009). Summer 2010 is just thirty days away and guess what? Joey “Bulldozer” Sitt is getting ready to play the demolition game in his Coney Island sandbox. We’re sorry that rumors of Joe [...]

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