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Article: Water park to make splash in Big Apple
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2006
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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
the $168 million attraction that will boast water slides rising 80
feet ...