Coney Island to Be Rebuilt. Better. Faster. Stronger.

Da Mayor revealed his big plans for the New Coney Island. I was glad to see that it will include a new amusement park 15 acres in size: five times as large as Astroland. However, the article notes that it may not be done for 20 years. In the future our robot bodies will not tire at the end of a long day at the park. We will power-cycle our lithium cells and dance on into the night.

A lot of eulogies have been written for Coney Island's Astroland and the tragedy of its eventual destruction but in the end I will be glad to see it go. It had its own rundown charm but things that continue to run down at some point just have to make way for the new. It seems that Astroland will actually get one more summer, so I will be glad to go back and see it for the final time. I will definitely do my mourning then. The Warriors will lose their home forever, but the Techno-Warriors will self-construct their exoskeletons from the dying embers. Long Live the Future.