The Death Defying Amusement Parks Of Brooklyn

I say this with all love. There is nothing quite like riding the Cyclone and pondering what is more terrifying the first drop or the creeping sensation that this contraption might shake apart. Its a Brooklyn tradition! Anyway, one of the last Brooklyn amusement parks, Nellie Bly's, in Bensonhurst received a second life after Gina Romano, sold the venerable park to Martin Garin.

After rumors swirled that the young child oriented park was headed into borough history, Garin says that most of the park should be open for the Memorial Day Weekend. Although my time as a child was spent a its' competitor Fairyland "Buddie's" Amusement Park, once located just off of Flatbush Avenue, Nellie's has been the site of my niece and nephew's birthday parties.

I gained an appreciation of the small park, as a place of public amusement, and its historical context as it was to be a feature attraction of the proposed, Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea beach resort. The failure of which, coincided with the end of the golden age of Coney Island.

Amusement Business has the story here.