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And the march towards a "revitalized" Coney Island continues!
Forty years after it was shut down, Coney Island's famed Parachute Jump got a new lease on life last night. Thanks to pressure from Brooklyn's elected mascot Marty Markowitz the 277-foot Jump will now light up the Brooklyn sky 365 days a year. Artist Leni Schwendinger designed the new light display of which there are six configurations which will switch, like the Empire State Building, over the course of the year. The Jump will be lit up from dusk till midnight in the summer and dusk till 11 p.m. in the winter and should be visible from a considerable distance. Oh, and, uh, we love it.
Paris? by Matthew Krautheim via Contribute. Check out Matt's full set of Jump photos here and there are even more photos here.
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I love it too.
Sadly, it reminds me of the WTC redesign concept from the THINK team that came in second, the beautifully lit twin lattice structures. That design actually came in first until Pataki bowed to pressure from the families and vetoed it in favor of the Libeskind thing. Of course, the Libeskind design got changed into one of the original "unacceptablly boring" concepts that had been rejected earlier.
The Coney Island Parachute Jump has been called "Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower" since at least 1969.
http://www.barrypopik.com/article/1375/brooklyns-eiffel-tower-coney-island-parachute-jump
The COney Island Parachute Jump has been called "Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower" since at least 1969.
http://www.barrypopik.com/article/1375/brooklyns-eiffel-tower-coney-island-parachute-jump