Parachute Jump (New York City, New York)
| amusement ride, abandoned / shut down, parachute drop tower
USA /
New York /
New York City, New York
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/ USA
/ New York
/ New York
World / United States / New Jersey
amusement ride, abandoned / shut down, parachute drop tower
The Parachute Jump is a no-longer-operational amusement ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, whose iconic open-frame steel structure remains a Brooklyn landmark. Eighty meters (262 feet) tall and weighing 170 tons (150 tonnes), it has been called the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn". It was built for the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, and moved to its current site, then part of the Steeplechase Park amusement park, in 1941. It is the only portion of Steeplechase Park still standing today. The ride ceased operations in the 1960s.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_jump
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Coordinates: 40°34'22"N 73°59'3"W
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- Parachute Training Tower 1495 km
- Camp Rilea Rappel Tower 4023 km
- SIMURG Parachuting Center 9379 km
- NAMANGAN Skydive Center 9389 km
- Airborne Training Tower 10945 km
- Paratrooper Training Area 10953 km
- Coney Island (Peninsula) 1.2 km
- Gravesend 2.6 km
- Lower New York Bay 5.6 km
- (West) Rockaway Inlet 6.7 km
- Barren Island 7.6 km
- Brooklyn 8.6 km
- Inner Approaches to New York Harbor 10 km
- The Rockaways 12 km
- Queens 13 km
- Monmouth County, New Jersey 38 km