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Coney Island – will be coming back

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Coney Island
State-of-the-art new rides with a roller coaster and a pendulum will release this summer at Coney Island to jump-start the reappearance of the famed Brooklyn amusement park, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

“Coney Island is coming back, huge time,” Bloomberg said at a news meeting near the boardwalk where the decades-old Astroland rides were take apart in 2008. The new rides are being shaped by Zamperla, the world’s leading company of mechanical rides, found in Altavilla Vicentina, Italy.

Luna Park at Coney Island will release on Memorial Day weekend by 19 rides. Among them will be the Air Race, which sends riders swinging and soaring about a control tower. It will be the ride’s worldwide debut. By the summer of 2011, Scream Zone at Coney Island will present two roller coasters, go-carts and a human slingshot beginning people more than 200 feet into the air.

“We will have rides that will flick you, turn you, launch you, dive you, splash you and make the mayor desire to lose his lunch,” said David Galst, a CAI spokesman.

Not all of Coney Island’s old amusements were piece. The 1920s Cyclone roller coaster is land marked, as is Deno’s Wonder Wheel. Both will go on to be operated by their present management. The cities buy 6.9 acres of Coney Island assets in November from developer Joe Sitt for $95.6 million. That followed years of wrangling among the city and Sitt, whose idea for Coney Island was not in line with Bloomberg’s.

Officials said the park will make 330 jobs by 2011, with pressure on local hiring. In coming years, the rest of the renewal is expected to create more than 25,000 structure jobs and 6,000 lasting ones, along with billions of dollars in financial activity.

The city has assured to invest about $6.5 million toward improving the neighborhood’s rotting infrastructure in research for building more than 5,000 housing units, counting 900 affordable ones. The May opening of Luna Park is to be toasted with a fresh beer called the Coney Island Luna Lager, complete by the San Francisco-based Shmaltz Brewing Co.

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