B'klyn fun park,
by power of Thor 
BY JOTHAM SEDERSTROM
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 

Good-bye, Astroland, hello "Coney Island Park."
The big-bucks developer who bought Coney Island's oldest amusement 
park plans to replace it with a glitzy $250 million playground 
anchored by a roller coaster that dips under the Boardwalk, the Daily 
News has learned.

Double the size of Astroland, the multitiered park will include 21 
rides, a hotel, a manmade canal for boat rides, a glass-encased 
atrium and commercial space.

"We're trying to deliver on the promise of what Coney Island is," 
said Chris Durmick, creative director of Thinkwell Design & 
Production, the California group that is drawing up the 6-acre 
plan. "Whatever you come looking for at Coney Island, it's all going 
to be there."

Astroland owner Carol Hill Albert, whose family had owned the gritty 
but storied park since 1962, sold the site to developer Thor Equities 
in November for an unspecified amount.

Coney Island Park, slated to open in 2011, would be one component of 
a 13-acre, $1.5 billion plan by Thor that includes an indoor water 
park and residential, retail and entertainment components.

The flagship ride is the "Leviathan," a 100-foot-tall coaster with 
loop-de-loops that dips under the Boardwalk before flying back 
aboveground.

Including the Cyclone and another coaster planned for Stillwell Ave., 
it would be the third for the area.

Another marquee ride, the Aviator, would soar 120 feet, with gondolas 
guided individually by hand-held joysticks. 




 
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