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The Thunderbolt! the 21St Century’S Scream Machine

The Thunderbolt! the 21St Century’S Scream Machine

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L NEW THUNDERBOLT OURIER C A JOLT FOR CONEY B BY MAX JAEGER took them through a pitiless tan- instead of an empty lot,” said where the new Coney Island be- G It was a heavenly ride for gle of drops, twists, and turns at Harold Kramer, whose great- gins to enter the phase of being M some, and a ride from hell for speeds of 65 miles for two heart- aunt and great-uncle built the up to the quality of the past.” others. pounding minutes. wooden coaster in 1925 and lived Lesser bravehearts “ooo- The Thunderbolt rumbled Relatives of the original beneath it in the Kensington Ho- hed” and “aaahed” from the into Coney Island like a tantaliz- Thunderbolt’s operators cheered tel before its was dismantled in sidelines. ing brute, delighting thrill seek- the arrival of a spine-chiller that 2000. “My son is a thrill-seeker, ers who shrieked their lungs out is also the fi rst to fl ip riders up- The new Bolt is a $9 million but I am a thrill-coward,” joked as Sodom-by-the-Sea’s fi rst new side down since Loop-the-Loop slice of the city’s investment pie Adams. since the Cyclone more than a century ago. in the amusement district over His predecessor was more “It’s nice to drive up Surf the past decade, and a game blunt. Avenue and see a roller coaster changer, said Coney’s unoffi cial “There’s no amount of mayor. money you could pay me to ride “It ranks right up there his- that!” said former beep Marty torically as one of the major Markowitz. rides ever built — it’s an A-plus,” The Thunderbolt brings said Dick Zigun, who was among more attention and about 20 jobs the maiden voyagers. “This is to a neighborhood still recover- ing from Sandy, but there’s still more work ahead, claim advocates. “We’re not done rebuilding yet,” Zigun said. Still, the ride signals a comeback for the People’s Play- ground. Private investors shelled out $140 million for area improve- ments in the past two years, and Mayor DeBlasio proposed $180 million in new funding for infrastructure improvements, including new mixed-income housing and sewer upgrades, in a effort to return the glory days of the early 1900s when world travelers fl ocked to Coney’s bathing pavilions, seaside re- sorts, and be- fore the ush- ered their decline.

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Photo by Stefano Giovannini Stefano by Photo Giovannini Stefano by Photo Giovannini Stefano by Photo D ♦ N ♦ A ♦ L ♦ S ♦ The new roller coaster’s ribbon-cutting by state Sen. Diane Y I Y ♦ Pamela Harris and kids from the Coney Gap Island youth Youth orga- E ♦ N ♦ A CLAP OF THUNDER: OF CLAP A Savino and Borough President Adams drew thunderous applause. FIRST STRIKE: FIRST rst ride to the new coaster on opening day. nization were the fi A BOLT IN THE BLUE:A BOLT The Thunderbolt, named after a famed ride that thrilled mil- cially opened on June 14. lions a short distance offi away‚ O ♦ rst rst 5g $10 4 feet 115 feet 115 5 times 2 minutes 2,233 feet R C R ♦ THUNDERBOLT 55 miles per hour rst drop, which ve inversions — A * Yes, we know that is spelled wrong. ♦ Dead relative in “Annie Hall” Hall” “Annie in relative Dead 90 degrees — straight down! L Still, what the Cyclone Cyclone the Still, what ♦

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IFE BY WILL BREDDERMAN streets. In 2012, the funzone their family,” said Alberto Coney Island postcards for L Brooklyn’s waterfront is expanded to include the , who runs Luna just $5. getting a lot more fun! B&B Carousell, a restored Park. A short walk away, on W. OURIER C Brooklyn’s legendary 108-year-old ride with hand- Details on what rides 12th Street between amusement destination carved wooden horses situ- the splashy spot will have Street and the Boardwalk is emerging from decades ated on the Boardwalk ad- remain sketchy. — under the iconic Wonder of decline, the storm of jacent to the landmarked “It’s in the very pri- Wheel — the Coney Island the century, and the bit- , which has mary stages, we don’t want History Project will hold B ter months of winter to re- been decked out in state-of- to mention anything yet,” an exhibit this summer on G claim its reputation as the the-art lights that pulse and said president the famous “Funny Face” Playground of the World. dazzle nighttime crowds. Valerio Ferrari. that has come to represent M This summer, and for But Luna’s wildest — But Coney wouldn’t be Coney Island. the fi rst time since 1927, a and wettest — attraction Coney without its sense of But the biggest event new roller coaster swoops may still be yet to come. nostalgia, and the neigh- for Coney history buffs is and dives in Coney Island. The park’s owners borhood has two vaults of the return of the Named the Thunderbolt — leaked to us preliminary Coney relics to remind visi- Rocket. The space-age ride after a famed ride that once plans to construct a water tors of those halcyon days was the symbol of Astro- thrilled millions a short park on the vacant parcel — plus one big exhibit of a land Park — which sat in distance away — the new next to the new Thunder- People’s Playground icon what is now Luna Park’s lo- attraction at W. 15th Street bolt. The lot belongs to Jas- once thought lost. cation from 1962 until 2008. off Surf Avenue is the fi rst mine Bullard, daughter of The Coney Island Mu- The rocket spent the last Coney coaster to feature an the late Coney Island land seum at the corner of W. several decades as a sign upside-down loop since the baron Horace Bullard, who 12th Street and Surf Av- atop Boardwalk oyster bar historic Loop-the-Loop ride soug ht u nsuccessf u l ly to re - enue re-opened on May 22 Paul’s Daughter, pointing closed shortly after World vive the amusement district following a year-and-a-half visitors toward the now- War I. in the 1980s. Luna’s leaders of renovations. Visitors shuttered funzone’s gate. The coaster is part of said they are thrilled at the are now able to check out The city took possession of Luna Park, which opened prospect of a partnership 1920s funhouse mirrors, the rocket after Astroland in 2010 on Surf Avenue be- with the younger Bullard. vintage , and closed, and left it to rot be- COMING TO CONEY: Luna Park is in negotiations to bring a water- tween W. 10th and W. 12th “I have great respect for rare, turn-of-the-century Continued on page A6 park to the People’s Playground. Associated Press / Jan Bauer Greater City League REGISTER NOW FOR PRE-SEASON TRAVEL ICE HOCKEY CAMP AUGUST 18-21, 2014 & AUGUST 25-28, 2014 8 HOURS OF ICE TIME, 8 HOURS OF DRY-LAND AND CLASSROOM/VIDEO RUNS FROM 9AM-3:30PM - LOCKER ROOM PROVIDED TO LEAVE EQUIPMENT FOR THE WEEK COST $450 PER PLAYER FULL WEEK / GOALIES $200 FULL WEEK (SQUIRT THRU MIDGET) HALF DAYS FROM 9AM-12:30 FOR (MITES ONLY) - $225 PER PLAYER & $100 PER GOALIE INSTRUCTION SKATING -” YOUR FOUNDATION”, SHOOTING & PASSING, STRIDE DEVELOPMENT, EXPLOSIVE STARTS & STOPS, STICK HANDLING, CROSSOVERS, BALANCE & PROPER FORM, TIGHT TURNING, FORWARD & BACKWARD STRIDES, FLOW DRILLS Located at Abe Stark Ice Arena, 1902 Surf Ave, New York, NY 11224 CAMP FORMAT: 9:00 - 10:00 A.M. (ON-ICE SESSION #1), 10:15 - 11:15 A.M. (DRYLAND), (Between W. 19th St and W. 17th St.) 11:30 - 12:30 A.M. (CLASSROOM), 12:45 - 1:15 P.M. (LUNCH), 1:30 - 2:30 P.M. (ON-ICE SESSION), adjacent to stadium. 2:30 - 3:30 P.M. (DRYLAND), 3:30 P.M. (PICK UP) *CAMP FORMAT IS A FULL DAY EXAMPLE. INITIATION/HOUSE LEAGUE PROGRAM (AGES 5-14) DISCOUNT: STARTS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2014!!! Mention this INITIATION: RUNS ONCE A WEEK, SEP. 13TH - DEC. 20TH advertisement and all HOUSE LEAGUE: RUNS TWICE A WEEK (SATURDAY & MONDAY), SEP. 13TH - DEC 20TH first-time Greater NYC Ice Hockey players will FREE LEARN TO PLAY ICE HOCKEY receive a one-time 10% FOR FIRST TIME HOCKEY PLAYERS, AGES 5 THRU 7 ONLY. off the activity price!! 4 WEEK PROGRAM, EQUIPMENT PROVIDED For more information go to www.GNYCIHL.com or email [email protected] B G JUNE 27-JULY 3, 2014, COURIER LIFE M A5 ANYMORE! THIS 834906153'361759840857( 8#6!298#3)389"37438( 6"719583)(9& 9478'943572( 6"719583)(9& STARTING AT 9:30PM AT STARTING

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IFE Oh, Shea can you see! L OURIER C We sit down with the man who makes eating mass quantities of food fun

You know him as the master of ceremonies at the an- plosion of all sorts of colors. nual Nathan’s Famous hot-dog-eating championship ev- Sometimes individual vi- B ery July 4 in Coney Island, but George Shea has done sion fails, but by defi nition, G more than preside over the rise of competitive eating from it always succeeds because an annual summer photo op to an international phenom- it exists. We are way better M enon. Behind the scenes, Shea, who runs his own pub- off with that. I’m lucky that licity firm, Shea Communications, has helped promote Nathan’s lets me do what I the city’s vision for a reborn amusement area, finding want. I tell them the plan the middle ground between naysayers who complained it and they say, “That’s very wasn’t bold enough and different naysayers who worried funny. Do it.” That’s very it would turn Coney Island into Disneyland. That can’t rare. And I do have other happen, thanks to people like the irrepressible Shea, who clients. sat down with Moses Jefferson for his first-ever interview MJ: Some will call you that did not involve promoting one of his clients or Major an apologist, claiming what League Eating, of which he is chairman. we have in Coney now is completely watered down. Moses Jefferson: This ishment of rules. In Coney They’ll say we throw out interview is for a special Island — and you see this the baby with the sour ho- section on Coney Island, every year on the Fourth mogenized milk. so clearly I should be inter- of July if you listen to what GS: Yes, we’ve lost Shoot viewing Dick Zigun. So let I’m saying on stage — any- the Freak. I’m not going to me start with the obvious thing you say is true. I can gloss over that. I’m not go- question: Why am I inter- say anything up there. And ing to pretend that doesn’t viewing you? I do. Coney Island has some- matter. But we still have George Shea: I have thing that no other amuse- so much of what made Co- had the fortune to be at the ment area has: its own dis- ney great. And we still have crux of the rejuvenation tinct voice and its own edgy the attitude. Coney Island of the sport of competi- quality. did not become an over- tive eating and bringing it MJ: What are you even CONEY’S RUNNER-UP MAYOR: George Shea is not Dick Zigun, but he’ll do. Photo by Steve Solomonson produced corporate experi- into the modern era, where talking about now? ence. It still has the verve. champions such as Joey GS: A couple of years not more than two or three that the Japanese were an- contained that most Amer- It does! Chestnut eat 69 hot dogs ago, someone in Coney Is- times a week. gry that we won back the icans are like cows in a MJ: So we should thank and buns in 10 minutes. It land wanted to do a public- GS: I have been called Mustard Yellow Interna- chute. It’s all pabulum and you? is now a worldwide sport ity stunt. They said they the “false prophet.” I was tional Belt. It wasn’t true. dumbed down. But Coney GS: No. But I am with of international standing, found a 140-year-old hot at a contest one year and an But sure enough, they sent Island is the opposite. It is those people who have the in- a sport, like no other, that dog from the original Felt- old woman who looked to be three eaters over here to get alive in a way that no other dividual voice, the creativity. reveals the human condi- man’s hot dog stand, fro- about 100 grabbed my wrist it back. Or the time I said destination is alive. Who You are such a cynic. What is tion. zen below the Boardwalk. with remarkable strength there was a national circuit else would do a Mermaid more edgy and more creative MJ: Mr. Shea, you’re And CNN ran it! And and said, “Everything you of eating contests. There Parade and have all the ele- than Coney Island? Where? doing what you always do, then in the ensuing cover- say is a lie, yet it all comes wasn’t a national circuit of ments like that? Where? You don’t have an an- hijack the interview. This age, it was revealed to be true. That’s why I call you eating contests. But there is MJ: You mean all the swer, do you? Coney Island is is about Coney Island. How a hoax. Yet no one said, ‘the false prophet.’ ” now. I am the false prophet breasts? the most unique. have you helped revive the “How could they do that? MJ: What was she even — in a good way. GS: I’ll ignore that. But MJ: “Most unique” is amusement area? A hoax! Imagine that!” talking about? MJ: Again, can we stay the Mermaid Parade is an redundant. If something is GS: I honestly think the No, people said, “This is GS: First of all, I need focused here? Is Coney Is- example of Coney’s indi- unique, it is one of a kind. sensibility I bring to the Coney Island! You can say to repeat how strongly she land back? vidual vision vs. America’s So how can it be “most” Nathan’s Famous hot dog anything there!” grabbed my wrist. But she GS: Of course it’s back. conference room vision. unique? contest is what Coney Is- MJ: Of course, you was talking about all the And here’s why: America Focus groups come up with GS: At Coney, you can land is all about: absurdity, would never do something lies I tell — like the time in is so pre-packaged, so ano- ideas that are all beige. But say anything and it’s true. lightheartedness, the ban- like that, I mean, at least the early 1990s when I said dyne, so corporate and so individual vision is an ex- This too.

— not as a ride, but as a mu- business group represent- seum piece. ing amusement district Water “It’s real Coney Island interests. “With everyone Continued from page A4 history,” said Denson. united, working together to hind vacant buildings on No doubt about it — Co- showcase Coney as the One the water- ney’s future looks bright. and Only, ’s front. But History Project “This is a very excit- favorite seaside entertain- curator Charlie Denson ing time for Coney Island,” ment destination, 2014 is teamed up with the own- said Johanna Zaki, direc- poised to be Coney Island’s ers of Wonder Wheel Park tor of operations for the Al- best season in modern his- to restore the iconic rocket liance for Coney Island , a tory.” WATERLOO: A wet and wild water park could rise up next to the new Thunderbolt. Zamperla USA B G JUNE 27-JULY 3, 2014, COURIER LIFE M A7

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OURIER The two-and-half mile wooden walk provided rev- Carol Albert was unable to get a lease renewal C elers with a seaside alternative to Surf Avenue. from Thor Equities, and closed after the 2008 season. 1925: Thunderbolt opens George Moran built this wooden coaster over a 2009: The city buys out Astroland house. It was a Coney Island favorite for decades Mayor Bloomberg struck a deal with Sitt for the B before falling into disrepair. city to purchase the park for $95.6 million, vow- ing to keep it an outdoor amusement park. G 1927: Cyclone opens M Also made of wood, the 85-foot-tall Cyclone cost 2010: New Luna Park opens $175,000 to build, hit a top speed of 60 miles per The city made a deal with Zamperla, an Italian hour, and included 12 drops. manufacturer of amusement park rides, to run a new park at the old Astroland location. They gave 1941: Parachute Jump opens OLD CONEY: Steeplechase Park stood from 1897 until 1966. Charles Denson the park a nostalgic name and installed many Originally built for the 1939 World’s in Flush- new attractions — including 14 new rides. ing, the simulated parachute ride was moved to Steeplechase fi nally closed after 67 years of op- elict coaster ahead of the new sea-side baseball Steeplechase park in 1941. It operated until 1964. eration . stadium’s opening. 2011: New coasters open The Soarin’ Eagle put riders on their bellies be- 1946: Luna Park closes after fi re MODERN ERA 2001: Keyspan Park (now MCU) opens fore fl ipping through loops, twists, and turns. Fire destroyed most of the park in 1944, and it Professional baseball returned to Brooklyn for The Steeplechase paid homage to the horse- 1983: First Mermaid Parade closed for good two years later. the fi rst time since the Dodgers left after the racing simulation of the original Steeplechase Founded by Dick Zigun, the annual art parade 1957 season, thanks to this new minor-league 1962: Astroland USA opens Park, with seats shaped like horses that riders billed itself as “a celebration of ancient mythol- baseball stadium, where family-fun can be had straddle. The Albert family opened a space-themed amuse- ogy and honky-tonk rituals of the seaside.” at the home of the New York Mets-affi liated Cy- 2013: Astrotower dismantled ment park that tapped into America’s new-found clones. fascination with space travel. After parkgoers saw the tower swaying, the city 2000: Thunderbolt demolished 2006: Astroland sold moved quickly to take it down before the July 4 1964: Steeplechase closes Mayor Guiliani ordered the demolition of the der- Joe Sitt’s real estate company, Thor Equities, celebrations.

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