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Article: Big Apple is getting a big water park
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- May 4, 2006
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LARRY McSHANE, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-04-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
A visit to the Big Apple always promised a great adventure: Times Square, Coney Island, the Empire State Building. There was never a need for some trumped-up theme park in the land of Trump himself.
Until now.
In the latest bit of suburban creep into the nation's largest city, a family-themed water park is due before summer 2007 on a piece of Randalls Island parkland at the juncture of the East and Harlem Rivers, under the vast Triborough Bridge. The site is easily reachable by car, bus, bicycle or footbridge from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.
The city hopes to lure more than 1.3 million visitors a year to ...