Thunderbolt (Coney Island)

This article deals with the wooden roller coaster operated from 1925–1982. For the steel roller coaster that opened at the same location in 2014, see Thunderbolt (roller coaster model) .

Thunderbolt
The disused roller coaster (1995)
Data
Location	Coney Island ( Brooklyn , New York , USA )
Type	Wood - sitting
Drive type	Chain lift hill
Designer	John A. Miller
opening	1925
closure	1982
height	26 m
Travel time	1:17 min
Inversions	0

Thunderbolt on Coney Island ( Brooklyn , New York , USA ) was a wooden roller coaster designed by John A. Miller . It was opened in 1925. The railway was closed in 1982, but remained in place until the end of 2000.

On November 17, 2000, the New York City Council began to tear down the now very dilapidated roller coaster against the will of the owner. A subsequent initiated federal jury process revealed in 2003 that the demolition had been unlawful and the municipality is the trespass - the equivalent of the German trespassing - was guilty.

The track was built over a house that was built in 1895 as the Kensington Hotel . This house and thus also the railway are in the film Der Stadtneurotiker (1977) by and with Woody Allen the setting as the childhood home of the character Alvy Singer, who is played by Woody Allen.

Web links

Commons : Thunderbolt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Data and pictures on RCDB

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dan Barry: About New York; Giuliani Razed Roller Coaster, and the Law. In: The New York Times, October 4, 2003, accessed August 23, 2020.

Coordinates: 40 ° 34 ′ 26.6 "  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 57.6"  W.