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Perhaps I can add to your education. Hanging in the Boardwalk Resort building, sorry, forget where exactly, there is a old time photo which has a round building and a flag on top. Of course this is a building built for a carousel. This is known as the Coney Island Carousel Building. Believe it is from the turn of the century. I don’t know all of its history, but after it no longer had a carousel in it, it was moved to Brighton Beach Baths and repurposed as a food court.

In the 1990’s, when Brighton Beach Baths were redeveloped into a waterfront condo project, they saved the old carousel building from demolition. They dismantled it, moved it to the Aquarium here in Coney, (BTW, the Aquarium sits on the land where Dreamland was). Now for the sad part. The Aquarium kept the old wooden structure in pieces in shipping containers. Not weatherproof to say the least. The Aquarium never decided what to do with the building. Meanwhile the wood rotted away till it couldn’t be saved. The developer who helped move it to the Aquarium, removed it after the Aquarium said they no longer wanted it. The last I heard, the shipping containers were on Staten Island, where other residents complained about it. Its probably land fill now. The waste of it all.