The Astroland Rocket of Coney Island finally found a new home. Former Astroland co-owner, Carol Hill Albert donated the super-awesome Rocket to the NYC Economic Development Corp. on behalf of the Coney Island History Project. We still don’t know where it will actually live though.
Photo by Peter Kleeman, Space Age Museum
On New Year’s Day, when the Polar Bears take their annual chilly swim in the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island, they were joined by Reverend Billy (of the Church of Stop Shopping), Lola Staar and others hoping to Save Coney Island as we know it.
The Municipal Art Society will be presenting exciting new ideas for the planned redevelopment of Coney Island at BAM this coming Monday, November 17, 2008 at 6:30 – 8:30pm.
My fantasy for the future of Coney Island is that they reconstruct the Elephant Hotel which burnt down in 1896. There have been other elephant buildings but none of them compare to this pleasantly debaucherous Victorian beast standing over the boardwalk:
image courtesy of the New York Public Library
You can submit your ideas for Coney Island’s future on the Imagine Coney website!
