page_title: Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903)
section_title: Namesakes
hierarchical_section_title: Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903) / Legacy / Namesakes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Entrance to Luna Park Coney Island
context_page_description: Luna Park was an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Luna Park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west. Luna Park opened in 1903 and operated until 1944.
  Luna Park was located partly on the grounds of Sea Lion Park, which operated between 1895 and 1902. It was the second of the three original iconic large parks built on Coney Island, the other two being Steeplechase Park and Dreamland. The park was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1944, never reopened, and was demolished two years later. Though another amusement park named Luna Park opened nearby in 2010, it has no connection to the 1903 park.
context_section_description: The original Luna Park site now houses a five-building cooperative apartment complex called Luna Park Houses.
  On May 29, 2010 a new amusement park named Luna Park opened at the former site of the defunct Astroland park, a parcel of land on the south side of Surf Avenue just across from the original Luna Park site. The new park, which includes new semi-permanent rides, games, food and beverage concessions, and live entertainment, features an entrance patterned after the entrance to the original 1903 Luna Park.
caption: Modern Luna Park entrance
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