The Astrotower, another piece of Coney Island, is gone
Another piece of Coney Island history is gone, thanks to an observant local ironworker.
The famed Astrotower was completely dismantled a week after Sean Lennon, a Sheepshead Bay resident, noticed the 270-foot landmark swaying in the wind on Saturday, June 29.
“In my head, it was all about Jenga. My son was just on a worldwide commercial [for the game] and all I saw and thought about was Jenga for weeks,” Lennon recalled. “We were going to meet on the Boardwalk. I looked up and thought, “That looks like a big Jenga tower!’”