my fiancee and i had our first date at coney island. i proposed to her inside astroland. super, duper bummer that its going.

i can't imagine being shut off from the world for two years, coming back to new york with no yankee stadium, no cbgbs, and no astroland.

sad

Break Dance is my favorite! Now if only I can come up with 300k...

That's sweet, 9:47. Astroland will be missed.

if you follow the link to the list of inventory for sale, they've misspelled "liquidation". a total ghetto enterprise.

If you buy me, I will give you several STDs. Happy bidding!

hopefully yr marriage works out better than astroland.

I hope the parachute jump would come back one of these days. that looks like so much fun in old footage.

i hope the parachute jump comes back too...i would love to sue some people.

I gonna miss the puke guy

Now I am left only with the Coney Island of my mind.

Puke guy's not part of Astroland. Puke Guy is staying!

Just shoot me.

what about the freak show? is that staying?

Tilt-a-Whirl is a STEAL at $29 K. that shit was scary.

yeah that shit is scary. if there is ever a malfunction that would be a massacre.

freak show is definitely staying. they own their building outright.

new addition to the freak show: "Marky Markowitz, ladies and gentlemen! The Brooklyn Borough President who presided over the demise of Coney Island, Atlantic Yards and the waterfront rezoning! Even the old man who hammers nails into his forehead feels sorry for this guy."

lucy the elephant hotel, that would be just too fantastic if they brought it back http://www.impactlab.com/2007/07/29/lucy-the-elephant-hotel/

and closing down of McCarren Pool too, dont forget

lets all move to manhattan where shit is real.

Another victim of Mayor Billionaire and his developer friends.

You think the little billionaire would atleast have the brains to save the rides for a future museum project ala the rock n roll museum.Guess all he cares about is the billions of dollars out of town developers are filling his pocket to yuppify and suburbafy this once urban meca.

But NYC's appeal will be gone once it looks like every other city in the USA.The same ugly condos.The same suburban looking malls.The same county state rides.

Coney Island-think how many songs have been written about Coney Island from Lou Reed alone.How many movies shot there, from The Warriors to Requiem for a Dream.How many music videos.How many Rolling Stone covers.All that will be gone when it will be stripped of its punky urban appeal.It will be just another boring place that was once special.

Anon 2:45,you mean Bloomhattan.

Yeah,the shit is real there.I went to 34th-42nd street the other day,and almost got blinded by the tourist morons snapping pictures of anything.Wow,a clothing store.Wow,a shoe store.Wow,a Disney Store.I was like "morons,instead of snapping pictures of a disney souvenir store,why don't you go to Disneyland?"

because 3:45pm, its still new york city and to people not from new york, thats a big deal.
i remember the first time i came to new york just a street corner was amusing to me because it looked like every picture of new york id ever seen and there it was, real and right before my eyes.
so someones taking a stupid picture of a clothing store, who cares? theyre called tourists for a reason and thats their right, whether you like it or not.
dont be such a stuck up cunt.

the break dance was only 99,000 on one website it was listed at as of saturday. must be a hot market for old fair rides.