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Astroland closed its doors yesterday, and its owner, Carol Albert, says it's for good. She told the Daily News, "I want to make it clear that despite rumors to the contrary, there are absolutely no negotiations going on."

Today will be the last ride for Coney Island's Astroland. That will leave park owner Carol Albert with two dozen rides and 16 trailers worth of items accumulated over 46 years to clear out by next January in order to avoid fines from land owners Thor Equities. In order to clear out ASAP, Albert has already put several of the rides up for sale online from a firm called "Rides-4-U." Rides such as Dante's Inferno and Top Spin can be bought for prices ranging from $200k-$500k.

Astroland, the Coney Island amusement park that seems constantly on the brink of extinction in recent years, appears to be shutting down Astro-fast and will close down for good this Thursday. Owner Carol Albert, in a letter published by today's NY Daily News, wrote that property owner Thor Management "has left Astroland no choice but to notify its employees that the amusement park will be closing permanently at the end of the season."

A five-year-old girl suffered a cut on the back of her neck and a lifetime of nightmares when a ten-foot skeleton fell on her while she was walking through Adventureland Friday night. The girl was under a tightrope on which the skeleton rides a bicycle back and forth when the rope snapped and the prop tumbled onto her about 8 p.m. As the girl struggled to piece together the events, asking "What happened? What happened?" a witness told her, "Remember the skeleton you seen when you were walking before? Well, it fell and it hit you." The girl was treated at a nearby hospital for lacerations. In 2007, a 6-year-old boy's hand was mangled on an attraction called Super Raider at the Long Island amusement park.

Get ready to ride the Cyclone again - Astroland is opening up for the 2008 season this Sunday! There were worries, due to ambitious plans to redevelop Coney Island, that 2007 was Astroland's last season, but Astroland owners, the Albert family, and Thor Equities were able to come to an agreement last October.