Growing up as a young coaster enthusiast in the pre-to-early internet era, I would try to get my hands on any form of roller coaster media that I could – those usually were coffee table books from the sale section...
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Small Park Showcase: Long Island’s Adventureland
One of the best aspects of being a coaster enthusiast is finding parks that you wouldn’t have known about otherwise. During a recent visit to Long Island, New York, I happened to visit one of these parks for the first...
Continue reading...Adventureland Long Island Adding “Fireball” Roller Coaster in 2022
In a post on their Facebook page, Long Island’s Adventureland amusement park announced that the park would be adding a new family-friendly roller coaster in 2022, named Fireball. Fireball will be a first-of-its-kind attraction in North America. While details are scarce...
Continue reading...Coney Island’s Coasters Ranked By A First Time Visitor
Coney Island is one of America’s classic amusement park locations, and is likely one of the only parks known by reputation alone to the majority of people, enthusiasts or not. During my first visit to the park this September, I...
Continue reading...New York Announces Allowed Reopening Dates for Amusement Parks
2020 proved to be a difficult year for amusement parks in New York. While parks in surrounding states like Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut were able to open for at least portions of their 2020 operating seasons, amusement parks in...
Continue reading...What’s Left of Coney Island? Part 1: The Golden Age
Why Coney Island? Everyone knows the name Coney Island. It’s one of those places, like Hollywood or Gettysburg, that you probably can’t remember hearing about for the first time. It’s just part of American culture, known as the birthplace of...
Continue reading...Rye’s Playland Park Planning Enhancements, Steel Coaster
Playland Park in Rye, New York, may soon see a new steel coaster and another large attraction, according to the historic park’s soon-to-be management company. The park was on the verge of closure in the early 2010s. But last year, private company...
Continue reading...Luna Park Prepares for the 2014 Season
A warm, sunny day spent at a beach-side amusement park is hard to imagine when you’re shoveling snow. Last week, a “polar vortex” struck most of the United States with snow and below-freezing temperatures. But despite the cold, many park...
Continue reading...Coney Island Building New Thunderbolt
Zamperla will construct a re-imagined Thunderbolt roller coaster at Luna Park at Coney Island in 2014. The steel coaster will stand near where the original wooden coaster stood, which operated from 1925 to 1982 and was razed in 2000. The...
Continue reading...Beautiful Coney Island Photography
I believe that “seaside” and “photogenic” go hand-in-hand, and the following photographs of Coney Island by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao reaffirm my belief. “Greetings from Coney Island,” the Lightbox exhibition by MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design includes “eight stunning panoramic time-lapsed...
Continue reading...More on the New York Wheel
Last month we posted about a giant ferris wheel proposed for New York City. That wheel now has its very own website with more information about the specifics of the project. The ferris wheel will be located on the northeastern side...
Continue reading...World’s Tallest Ferris Wheel Planned for New York
Staten Island, New York may someday be home to the world’s tallest ferris wheel. At a whopping 600-feet, the proposed ferris wheel would beat Singapore’s Flyer ferris wheel (541 feet) and the London Eye (443 feet) in height. The Inquisitr...
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