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Photos via Coney Island message board.
Last month Coney Island ended a tumultuous year with news that the Astroland Rocket needed a home, and fast. Well, today it was carefully moved (video of the rocketship in flight after the jump), but no one seems to know what will happen next. A look at the Coney Island message board, and here's what we find out: the rocket weighs 14,000 lbs! Other than that, there's a hopeful comment amongst the photos and sentiments: "The fact that they took it down in one piece could be a good sign....Does anyone know if someone has taken it? Is it being sent off somewhere also in one piece?"
We'll update when we find out if it went to a farm upstate to play with all the other abandoned amusements, or if it will be preserved at a museum.
UPDATE: One message board comment now says an announcement will be made shortly concerning the rocket's new home. "The Coney Island History Project received interesting proposals from groups and individuals in NYC, NY State, neighboring states, and even an amusement park in Pakistan! But we really want to keep the Rocket in Coney Island." And the Coney Island History project notes that "everything inside is absolutely preserved."
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Marci Triangle, where Union Pool and Kellogs Diner are in Williamsburg, is just about the most boring park on the planet, and it's big enough. The rocket would be great there. Probably too much red tape to make it happen though.
Common courtesy to actually credit the photographer and person who shot the video, instead of taking the lazy way out.
Tio chickblao, that is a disgusting racist remark. What does Israel have to do with this? Just because Sitt is jewish? I think you should apologize.
Those are my videos. Its ok. Who took it, isnt as important as why this is happening. For no damn reason, but for Sitt to continue his destruction of Coney Island so he can go to the city and claim Coney is a depressed economic zone, but will fail to tell the city, he depressed it.
Bruce