Coney Island’s Astroland will soon be no more. But in the days leading up to its shuttering, the 45-year-old amusement park will have some competition. Thor Equities, the developers that will one day be responsible for bringing a $2 billion Vegas-style entertainment complex to Coney Island, presents to you
Cole Bros. Circus as a little amuse-bouche, if you will. The
2,000-seat big-top tent will be installed off the boardwalk, and become home to clowns, jugglers and trapeze artists for the summer months. You’ll also find the world largest inflatable water slide, measuring 40 feet high by 120 feet long, and an outdoor movie screen. But even after the circus goes home and
Astroland Park closes shortly after Labor Day, after the gleeful squeals of children can no longer be heard and mutated dust bunnies roll around the boardwalk, the Cyclone will still roar on, and on, and on.
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