@bigkid posted:Lot of Nostalgia here, many of the parks have been gone a long time. Coney Island kind of hung on as a shadow of itself, it still is nowhere near what it was in its heyday but is still fun, and as a train watcher it is fun to look at the subways and recall the history of how they were built, the hotel that was put too close to the sea and had to be dragged across the street and so forth
. Palisades park was one of those ironies, it actually did well financially from what I hear but fell value to the land being worth a lot more than the business, which is what happened to Rockaway Park as well (ah, the Cinerama coaster, guaranteed headache!). Most of the amusement parks that fell ended up dying for that reason, the land just became too valuable. I believe Rye Playland is now a county park, so it isn't likely to fall to a developer.
The coaster on Cinerama was one of the best that I've ridden. Wikipedia says "The film includes POV scenes of the Atom Smasher roller coaster from Rockaways' Playland, "
