Anonymous ID: aa9519 June 26, 2021, 2:09 p.m. No.13990675   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0698 >>0743 >>0771 >>0789 >>0841 >>0882

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>https://nypost.com/2018/05/25/how-coney-island-transformed-over-the-past-century/

How Donald Trump’s dad transformed Coney Island forever

Coney Island, baby!

More than 40 years since Lou Reed’s most romantic album, it’s a pity the rocker isn’t around to see the changes along the city’s iconic ocean beach and boardwalk.

It’s been a long, strange roller-coaster ride for Coney Island since Fred Trump, President Trump’s dad, gleefully demolished Steeplechase Park in 1966 — the last of the boardwalk’s trio of great amusement parks.

Fred, who wanted to build “Miami Beach-style” apartments, leveled Steeplechase before the city could declare it a landmark. So it’s delicious irony that the Landmarks Preservation Commission this month designated the 2.4-mile-long boardwalk an official “scenic landmark,” meaning it can’t be altered without city approval.

The officially named Riegel­mann Boardwalk, as the seaside promenade is called by no one, is on a roll from end to end.

Memorial Day weekend will see the opening of a new Luna Park thrill ride, Astro Tower, a 137-foot-tall scream machine that treats riders to “dramatic free-fall drops and rotation.” Two more “family-friendly” rides will follow in coming weeks.

The fabled Coney Island of 100 years ago can’t return. The larger neighborhood of 50,000 mostly low-income residents remains tense and troubled.

But the smarter comparison is between the beachfront’s seemingly irreversible decline of the 1970s-’90s and its rejuvenated current state — a heart-lifting story of New York’s regenerative powers.

The boardwalk, originally constructed in 1923, is the safest it’s been in generations. Steeplechase Pier, which juts 1,100 feet into the Atlantic, was rebuilt after Hurricane Sandy with shade canopies and a raised viewing platform. The Ford Amphitheater and an indoor-outdoor eatery brought the decades-vacant former Childs Restaurant building back to life last year.

A full-length boardwalk stroll offers an unrivaled urban spectacle of sky, sea and sand. (Be advised, there’s virtually no shade.) Its gracious width varies between 50 and 80 feet, according to the Department of Parks & Recreation — broader than most boulevards. More than 170 cast-iron, twin-fixture light poles lend a handsome grace note.

Anonymous ID: aa9519 June 26, 2021, 2:26 p.m. No.13990768   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>The suspected gunman had stolen a plumbing and drain company's truck, then crashed it into a building on Veterans Road, according to Massachusetts State Police.

>He got out of the truck and shot a woman and man, both of whom died, according to police. They were investigating whether the man may have been trying to stop the gunman.