![]() ![]() Reconciling such fantasies could take a while, and in times as tough as these, they all could fall apart. A prominent developer envisions time-share hotels and big stores. ![]() A civic group is lobbying for an amusement park twice as big as the mayor's, anchored by some landmark attraction as uniquely irresistible as the 443-foot-high London Eye, which hangs over the South Bank of the Thames like the slowly spinning wheel of a Titan's bicycle. Peering into a crystal ball, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration sees a 12-acre amusement district surrounded by new housing, shops and parks. Visit the spot today and you will find, raked by the Jump's skeletal shadow, a hotly contested landscape of urban blight. ![]() In Weegee's photograph Coney Island at noon Saturday, July 5, 1942-shot for the visually punchy, commercial-free, left-wing tabloid PM-the overgrown structure looms on the horizon in its glory: a memory within a memory. ![]() Built for the world's fair in 1939, the ride known affectionately as Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower has graduated to the status of official landmark. At 70 years old and counting, the Parachute Jump still stands, a ghost of its former self. ![]()
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