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HOMIE FROM CONEY Son of A Beach Offline I love Coney Island Posts: 592 CONEY ISLAND BROOKLYN USA Gender:	BREAKING NEWS Jan 02^nd, 2009, 1:24pm THERE IS A CONVOY OF TURCKS TAKING THE RIDES OUT RIGHT NOW FROM ASTROLAND
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electricia Son of A Beach Offline I love Coney Island Posts: 2120	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #1 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 1:43pm I'm not surprised, I saw the row of semi trailers inside Astroland fence when we walked on 10th St yesterday. it is too sad for words. I hope the rides are able to come back to Coney Island and we can have a HUGE welcome back party
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Capt_Nemo Son of A Beach Online Posts: 5008	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #2 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 1:56pm I wonder if we could have a party ripping down all his signs, like the Berlin Wall type party? Its the only way of exersizing the evil that is Sitt forever from coney. Bruce
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kris martin Thrill Seeker Offline save astroland Posts: 60 indianapolis , IN Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #3 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 4:38pm Capt_Nemo wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2009, 1:56pm: I wonder if we could have a party ripping down all his signs Bruce i did it but im to far of there
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ConeyLover Sand in my Shoes Offline I Love Coney Island! Posts: 434 Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #4 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 5:23pm The only way the rides will come back is if they get another lot for the Park.
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ConeyLover Sand in my Shoes Offline I Love Coney Island! Posts: 434 Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #5 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 5:25pm That's if she doesn't sell them by then. If she didn't sell them already!! Know one really knows if she did or not!!!!
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ConeyLover Sand in my Shoes Offline I Love Coney Island! Posts: 434 Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #6 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 5:26pm They could be on their way to Australia for all we know!!!!!
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ConeyLover Sand in my Shoes Offline I Love Coney Island! Posts: 434 Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #7 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 5:28pm The News on TV only covered the Polar Bear swim.Not one of them had the rally on!!!!! That's how much they care about CI!!!!!
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Reply #8 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 7:44pm

So,now that the rides are starting to leave the Park,now is the perfect time for them to thank the public for all the years of their patronage. Well,I just checked their website and guess what!!!! Noooo thank you AT ALL!!!!!!!!! WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!! Angry

bet they don't even appreciate everything that HAS been done and IS being done to help them!!!!!

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ConeyLover Sand in my Shoes Offline I Love Coney Island! Posts: 434 Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #9 - Jan 2^nd, 2009, 7:49pm A lil appreciation would be nice.ESPECIALLY after everyone froze their butts off yesterday!!!!!!!!
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Reply #10 - Jan 3^rd, 2009, 3:14pm

At the risk of backlash, I just wonder why no one really casts blame at Carol and the family for selling Astroland in the first place? Believe me, I'm with all of you who think Sitt is an evil developer who has no plans whatsoever for any amusement other than counting the money he envisions he'll make after developing the land. But if the family hadn't sold Astroland, it wouldn't be gone now. Plain and simple, right? It was their property; they sold it. Now, the new owner, although dastardly and despicable, has the right to do whatever he wants. It's sad, but true. So why does no one go back to the fact that the family sold out -- sold the legacy?
Just a thought.

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Reply #11 - Jan 3^rd, 2009, 8:09pm

ConeyGirl wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2009, 3:14pm:

At the risk of backlash, I just wonder why no one really casts blame at Carol and the family for selling Astroland in the first place? Believe me, I'm with all of you who think Sitt is an evil developer who has no plans whatsoever for any amusement other than counting the money he envisions he'll make after developing the land. But if the family hadn't sold Astroland, it wouldn't be gone now. Plain and simple, right? It was their property; they sold it. Now, the new owner, although dastardly and despicable, has the right to do whatever he wants. It's sad, but true. So why does no one go back to the fact that the family sold out -- sold the legacy?
Just a thought.

What happens when you have a group of people own a single item? All it takes is a majority decision, and everyone has to go along with it. There also has been stories that they felt the city pressured them into selling by telling them, Astroland has no future, and when Astroland tried to show them a possible future, the city said no to that plan.

They also may have felt they can sell to Sitt now and get 30 million, or the city would use eminent domain and get next to nothing.

We will never really know the absolute true story, just bits and pieces.

This is true, Carol Albert, but waiting for the very last second before dismantling the rides, and not selling them, she really wants Astroland to continue. If she truely didnt care about operating it, Astroand would have started to dismantle the day after it closed, and not wait till months later to do so.

Bruce

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Reply #12 - Jan 5^th, 2009, 9:58am

A tenant, any tenant; wether they're public or private; will wait until the last absolute last minute to pack. They don't want to give up the place/room/apartment/lot that they lived/worked in. No one does.
It hurts the heart, and kills your soul, packing away your life, the bits and pieces that make you who you are. And I'm talking as a person now, NOT a tenant. This is just a broadbased statement.
Leaving a place/room/apartment/lot is NEVER easy, even under the best of circumstances.
It'll take a lifetime to put that life/work place back together. And even when you do put it back together, it's never the same way twice.
Cry

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HOMIE FROM CONEY Son of A Beach Offline I love Coney Island Posts: 592 CONEY ISLAND BROOKLYN USA Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #13 - Jan 5^th, 2009, 6:05pm as i was coming home just now 2 more turcks whit rides going down surf ave from astroland
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ConeyLover Sand in my Shoes Offline I Love Coney Island! Posts: 434 Gender:	Re: BREAKING NEWS Reply #14 - Jan 5^th, 2009, 8:59pm Maybe now everyone will face the sad fact this it is over!!!!!! Rest in Peace,Astroland!!!
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