Coney Island Parachute Jump
Cultural Landmarks
Cultural Landmarks
Dates
- Constructed, 1939
- Renovation, 2006
Podcasts
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Coney Island Parachute Jump - Leni Schwendinger
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Description
The Coney Island Parachute Jump was an amusement park ride originally built for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens. The structure was moved to Coney Island in 1941 and was officially shut down in 1968. The 2006 revisualization of the landmark 277-foot structure was developed with a consortium of owner/stakeholders including the Borough President and Parks Commissioner. LSLP's lights evoke the rising and falling of the well-remembered parachutes for which the structure was original...
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Location
West 20th Street & Surf Avenue
New York, NY
United States
New York, NY
United States
Coney Island
Nearby Items
| Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk | 860 feet |  | ||
| Wall-Slide | 0.2 miles | | ||
| Discovery Cove Addition, The Aquarium for Wildlife Preservation | 0.2 miles | | ||
| Wavewall (MTA NYCT West 8th St-New York Aquarium Station) | 0.3 miles | | ||
| BMT Facade on building entrance | 0.3 miles | | ||
| My Coney Island Baby | 0.3 miles | | ||
| First Symphony of the Sea | 0.4 miles | |
