Sad Update at Coney Island / Astroland

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It is with great displeasure to find out that it appears to be the end of the road for Astroland; Coney Island’s amusement park for the past 46 years. As you all know by now from a slice of my current photography concentration, Coney Island is an area I am forever drawn to during my 33 years and life in the Brooklyn and NYC.

For example, whether it was…

* my parents taking me there as a child (Mom taking me to the carousel is something I remember – lucky for you all I cannot find the picture!),

* skipping the school bus to Mark Twain JHS 239 to go to Nathan’s with my friend Joe Chung (sorry Mom if you didn’t know that until right now!),

* riding the world famous Cyclone, spending some Summer Friday nights with my then girlfriend Vanessa (and now my loving wife and baby momma!) watching the fireworks from our apartment window on W17th Street and Ave Z,

* or my current passion of documenting this wonderful place through my viewfinder and presenting in local art galleries,

…Coney Island, Astroland, Shoot the Freak!, the Childs Building, etc….. are all comfort areas and a place that I love spending time thinking about how it must have been when King’s and Queen

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