Awesome story! This deserves way more views!?! Everyone involved in this story helped to preserve our precious history. Bravo! I need to get to Coney soon! :)
Love to see people come together and restore a magnificent piece of fine art you don't see very many of. I would love to say thanks to all of the people who worked on this carousell. You did a great job.
I know where I will be on June2, 2020. The ultimate Carousell -- although I remember San Francisco Playland and a few other beauties on the West Coast. This is a must.
I grew up riding the 1905 Looff Carousel at Playland in San Francisco. People don’t realize that carousel had 68 animals and 4 working band organs. Thankfully after many years of neglect, it was beautifully restored and currently operates at Yerba Buena Park in San Francisco
The agreement calls for the City to acquire the carousel for $1.8 million and, after restoration, return it to Coney Island for public use. The $1.8 million purchase price will come from City funds; however the City in discussions with potential private donors to defray some of the cost. The agreement averted the carousel’s sale at auction and the possibility it being relocated, probably piece-meal, to other parts of the United States. The organ was built by Gerbruder-Bruder and imported from Germany around 1917. It was originally a 69-key organ before the Brooklyn-based B.A.B. Organ Company refurbished it into a 66-key instrument in the 1930s, and is one of only 3 such organs in known existence. The New York City Economic Development Corporation paid $1,700,000 for the restoration. ----- However, there was also $3 million in grant money it competed for back in 2012; "The Empire State Building was lit up blue and white in honor of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It was a prelude to this morning’s announcement that New York City has been selected as the location for Partners in Preservation 2012. American Express, in partnership with the National Trust, will award $3 million to preserve historic places in New York City. Coney Island’s B & B Carousell is one of 40 competitors vying for your online vote. According to the initiative’s press release, the top four vote-getters, to be announced May 22, are guaranteed to receive grants for their preservation projects. A Partners in Preservation advisory committee of community and preservation leaders will select sites that will receive the rest of the $3 million in grants." ---- So I gather it was $1.8 million purchase and $1.7 million to restore a rare historic work of art, peanuts compared to the Aquarium's $45 million renovation and the $39 million baseball stadium; "Recent City investments in Coney Island include the $39 million construction of the baseball stadium, KeySpan Park, and the $18 million restoration of the Riegleman Boardwalk with the construction of new comfort and lifeguard stations. In addition, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has completed a $240 million dollar renovation of the Stillwell Avenue subway station. In addition, the New York Aquarium is currently undergoing a $45 million renovation." ---- Had the carousel not been bought and restored, it likely would have sold off in pieces, 50 hand carved wood horses winding up in rich people's homes as "bric-a-brac decor," worth probably $10,000 or more each and gone from the public view.
From 2012; In 2005, the owners shut it down and planned to sell it off piece-by-piece, but the city bought the merry-go-round and sent restoration three years later. The Feds will likely give Coney Island’s B&B Carousell the nation’s second-highest historical designation this month, according folks at the National Register of Historic Places. An application to list the century-old carousel on the register recently passed state-level review and moved on the Feds - whose approval is largely perfunctory, an insider said. “The expectation is that is that the nominations that come to us are eligible - statistically, we accept most nominations that come to us through state offices,” National Register historian Alexis Abernathy said. The 110-year-old, city-owned carousel would be eligible for federal preservation grants if officials list it in the register.
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Do you know what kind of gems they use on the horses? Are they real crystal? I'm having a hard time finding crystal or even glass gems of a large enough size. All I can seem to find is acrylic, resin or plastic. Thank you!
Do you know what kind of gems they use on the horses? Are they real crystal? I'm having a hard time finding crystal or even glass gems of a large enough size. All I can seem to find is acrylic, resin or plastic. Thank you!
Awesome story! This deserves way more views!?! Everyone involved in this story helped to preserve our precious history. Bravo! I need to get to Coney soon! :)
Love to see people come together and restore a magnificent piece of fine art you don't see very many of. I would love to say thanks to all of the people who worked on this carousell. You did a great job.
That's a nice sounding band organ
I know where I will be on June2, 2020. The ultimate Carousell -- although I remember San Francisco Playland and a few other beauties on the West Coast. This is a must.
I grew up riding the 1905 Looff Carousel at Playland in San Francisco. People don’t realize that carousel had 68 animals and 4 working band organs. Thankfully after many years of neglect, it was beautifully restored and currently operates at Yerba Buena Park in San Francisco
Those are truly talented artists & craftsmen. Did they publish the costs involved in all this?
The agreement calls for the City to acquire the carousel for $1.8 million and, after restoration, return it to Coney Island for public use. The $1.8 million purchase price will come from City funds; however the City in discussions with potential private donors to defray some of the cost. The agreement averted the carousel’s sale at auction and the possibility it being relocated, probably piece-meal, to other parts of the United States.
The organ was built by Gerbruder-Bruder and imported from Germany around 1917. It was originally a 69-key organ before the Brooklyn-based B.A.B. Organ Company refurbished it into a 66-key instrument in the 1930s, and is one of only 3 such organs in known existence.
The New York City Economic Development Corporation paid $1,700,000 for the restoration.
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However, there was also $3 million in grant money it competed for back in 2012;
"The Empire State Building was lit up blue and white in honor of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It was a prelude to this morning’s announcement that New York City has been selected as the location for Partners in Preservation 2012. American Express, in partnership with the National Trust, will award $3 million to preserve historic places in New York City.
Coney Island’s B & B Carousell is one of 40 competitors vying for your online vote.
According to the initiative’s press release, the top four vote-getters, to be announced May 22, are guaranteed to receive grants for their preservation projects. A Partners in Preservation advisory committee of community and preservation leaders will select sites that will receive the rest of the $3 million in grants."
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So I gather it was $1.8 million purchase and $1.7 million to restore a rare historic work of art, peanuts compared to the Aquarium's $45 million renovation and the $39 million baseball stadium;
"Recent City investments in Coney Island include the $39 million construction of the baseball stadium, KeySpan Park, and the $18 million restoration of the Riegleman Boardwalk with the construction of new comfort and lifeguard stations.
In addition, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has completed a $240 million dollar renovation of the Stillwell Avenue subway station.
In addition, the New York Aquarium is currently undergoing a $45 million renovation."
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Had the carousel not been bought and restored, it likely would have sold off in pieces, 50 hand carved wood horses winding up in rich people's homes as "bric-a-brac decor," worth probably $10,000 or more each and gone from the public view.
From 2012;
In 2005, the owners shut it down and planned to sell it off piece-by-piece, but the city bought the merry-go-round and sent restoration three years later.
The Feds will likely give Coney Island’s B&B Carousell the nation’s second-highest historical designation this month, according folks at the National Register of Historic Places. An application to list the century-old carousel on the register recently passed state-level review and moved on the Feds - whose approval is largely perfunctory, an insider said.
“The expectation is that is that the nominations that come to us are eligible - statistically, we accept most nominations that come to us through state offices,” National Register historian Alexis Abernathy said.
The 110-year-old, city-owned carousel would be eligible for federal preservation grants if officials list it in the register.
Want to see and hear more of this B&B Carousel in all Its Glory with its actual original Music? --
ruclips.net/video/nHym9sLEns4/видео.html Watch our latest improved RUclips.
I acquired a piece years ago from a nice woman she says it came from coney Island. How do I find out?
I rode this on my one and only trip to Coney Island. It's too bad they put it in such an inappropriately designed building.
Do you know what kind of gems they use on the horses? Are they real crystal? I'm having a hard time finding crystal or even glass gems of a large enough size. All I can seem to find is acrylic, resin or plastic. Thank you!
Do you know what kind of gems they use on the horses? Are they real crystal? I'm having a hard time finding crystal or even glass gems of a large enough size. All I can seem to find is acrylic, resin or plastic. Thank you!