{"id":179161,"date":"2026-03-29T22:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:15:29","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-were-so-back-new-yorkers-celebrate-denos-wonder-wheel-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179161\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | ‘We’re so back!’ New Yorkers celebrate Deno’s Wonder Wheel reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park on Coney Island is officially opened for the season. The opening was marked with the annual blessing of the rides.<\/p>\n

The Vourderis family, who own and operate the park, led the ceremony that was filled with dancing, speeches and a blessing of all 22 rides by Pastor Mary Smith of Coney Island’s Salt & Sea Mission.<\/p>\n

The first 106 guests got to ride the wonder wheel for free to celebrate the 106th year of the park.<\/p>\n

As the screams of excitement returned to the boardwalk, so do the feelings of nostalgia.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been coming here since I was in diapers,” said visitorJay Fern. “It’s my favorite place to be in the spring, in the summer.<\/p>\n

The full park hours can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park on Coney Island is officially opened for the season. The opening was marked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[71528,1457,72434,98,100,99,119,9,24,63,6089],"class_list":["post-179161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-amusement-park","tag-animals","tag-blessing","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-coney-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}