# Talk:Freedomland U.S.A.

I added a little on the fact that Freedomland was difficult to access by subway, then and now the traditional means to access most city amusements. Perhaps they hoped for a tonier audience by automobile, but people who drove could just as easily get to many other attractions not nearly as expensive as Freedomland. Freedomland had some of the same problems as the NY World's Fair of 1964-65: ambitious, crowded and expensive, with just about everything requiring you to open your wallet, as opposed to traditional Coney amusement parks, where you either had bargain tickets and lots of freebies, or else independent competitive amusements. I think Freedomland's builders betted too heavily that the auto was the wave of the future even in New York City
Freedomland's decline reminds me a bit of Dreamland, which went through a similar cycle of relatively high-class entertainment giving way to more typical amusement and quick demise. -- Cecropia 08:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

lots of problems with article, namely lack of references, needs more detail in regards to conception and construction of project, history, etc.
Lucky dog (talk) 03:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I have now reduced to a start class on the Amusement Park Project. Themeparkgc  Talk  01:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Improved to C after refs were added. Epicgenius (talk) 13:58, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

I remember Freedomland. There was nothing wrong with it, it was to be NYC's answer to Disneyland. The article shies away from the well known facts of the Bronx's demographic change and rapid decline. When Freedomland was being built, the Dodgers and Giants had already fled the change, but The Bronx's Grand Concourse was still home to the middle class. By the time Freedomland folded, they too had fled from the rising crime and declining schools into the suburbs. Richard Price's novel, Freedomland, could be quoted on the subject. And, btw, it's not illegal to talk about it.Profhum (talk) 10:56, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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I can not imagine British Airways sponsoring something named after their competior Braniff so i guess this may be a typo?--92.201.158.156 (talk) 15:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. This has now been removed. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:09, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

There is a fairly long documentary on the place:  "Defunctland; The history of Freedomland," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSMVeypDWog 2600:6C67:1C00:300:2187:6D1D:49C7:9F2 (talk) 20:05, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

@Adog, sorry I forgot to reply to your final comments earlier. To answer your questions:
I used square brackets to avoid giving the impression that the text in parentheses was part of the name, even though it's unlikely anyone would consider a year range as being part of the name.
Part of the Bay Plaza Shopping Center is indoors, but I reworded the lead to remove confusion.
"E-mail" is how the New York Times wrote it at the time. Epicgenius (talk) 05:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Article says “alcoholic beverages were banned in Freedomland,” yet there was a Schaefer brewery in Little Old New York? Which is true? Or if both, then how? 
Dodiad (talk) 07:44, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

@Dodiad: This might help from the former source: Although visitors to Little Old New York will see an old-time brewery in operation, no beer will be served in Freedomland nor will any whisky be available. Adog (Talk・Cont) 12:30, 4 September 2023 (UTC)