Coney Island: An Invitation for Your Expression of Grief

(Coney Island Shrine – Courtesy of Tricia Vita)

Everyone is invited to meet at the Astroland Park gates on New Year’s Day for an opportunity to share the loss of Coney Island, as we know it, with others in a memorial event and to add to a shrine.

Here is the letter we received from the memorial organizer.

Dear Friends,

Today a friend and I made a shrine on Astroland’s Boardwalk gates.  In the photos you can see our collage and a bouquet of  flowers.  There’s also a banner, off to the right, that people can sign.  Feel free to contribute photos, drawings, letters,  poems, flowers and mementos.

All items should be weather proofed with plastic sheet protectors! If you cannot go to Coney, please post your virtual contributions on the thread on the Coney Island USA Message Board.  Many of us will be going to Coney  on New Year’s Day. We will try to print out as many as possible and add them to the shrine at Astroland’s gates.

I look forward to seeing many of you on New Year’s Day!

All the best,
Tricia Vita