{"id":1852,"date":"2011-04-21T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/new-york-city-s-coney-island-welcomes-first-new-roller-coasters-since-1927\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T05:35:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:35:05","slug":"new-york-city-s-coney-island-welcomes-first-new-roller-coasters-since-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/new-york-city-s-coney-island-welcomes-first-new-roller-coasters-since-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Coney Island Welcomes First New Roller Coasters Since 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, New York City\u2019s Coney Island welcomed its first two new roller coasters since The Cyclone first opened back in 1927.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new coasters highlight The Scream Zone, a new amusement park that is part of an on-going revitalization project for one of New York City\u2019s most famous neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first phase was completed last summer with the opening of Luna Park which attracted over 450,000 visitors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials are hoping that the new Soarin\u2019 Eagle and Steeplechase roller coasters will draw even bigger crowds this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last summer was Coney Island&#8217;s biggest in nearly a half century, and this year &#8212; with the addition of the first new roller coasters since the Cyclone opened in 1927 &#8212; it&#8217;s going to be even bigger,&#8221; declared New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/21\/us-travel-coneyisland-rollercoasters-idUSTRE73K4DY20110421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, New York City\u2019s Coney Island welcomed its first two new roller coasters since The Cyclone first opened back in 1927. &nbsp; The new coasters highlight The Scream Zone, a new amusement park that is part of an on-going revitalization project for one of New York City\u2019s most famous neighborhoods. &nbsp; The first phase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897702,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/98897702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}