Coney Island’s AstroLand Park Closing, A Victim Of The Real Future

For almost 50 years , AstroLand in Coney Island has been a symbolization of our optimism about the Space Age and the conquest of the concluding frontier . But the commons is close this coming Sunday , a victim of a different imagination of the future . developer failed to hit an arrangement with the park ’s owner , Carol Albert , over a new two - year term of a contract of the property , presumptively because Thor Equities escort a brighter futurity in condo or some other pillar - block development . It ’s especially sad because AstroLand appear to be still popular — and wonderfully brassy — try from these AP photos . Click through to see pictures of the endangered foreign monsters and space vehicle .

Photos by AP / Seth Wenig

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