Negative-G Coney Island 2009 At Night Page Five

Coney Island
Brooklyn, New York
Friday July 31, 2009
Page Five

The Boardwalk, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

Here's Kevin and Corey heading down the boardwalk.

The Parachute Drop, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

The Parachute Jump was originally built for the 1938 Worlds Fair and then bought by Steeplechase Park the next year for $150,000. Steeplechase Park was the last of the old great amusement parks that existed on Coney Island such as Luna Park and Dreamland park. Steeplechase closed in 1964 and the Parachute Jump closed in 1968.

The Parachute Drop, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

Riders would ride up to the top of the Parachute Jump's 262 foot tall tower belted into a seat and then fall with nothing but a parachute and a set of springs at the bottom to slow them. After it closed in 1968 it has sat idle except for recently when the structure was restored, not as a working ride but as a landmark insuring it's place on Coney Island's skyline for the future.

Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

I like the decoration over Keyspan Park's scoreboard. I wonder is the coaster moves when the Cyclones get a home run?