{"id":180433,"date":"2026-03-31T02:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:41:09","slug":"coney-islands-cyclone-roller-coaster-opens-for-its-99th-season-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180433\/","title":{"rendered":"Coney Island\u2019s Cyclone Roller Coaster opens for its 99th season \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be approaching the century mark, but this iconic New York City ride is still thrilling people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>A chilly weekend didn&#8217;t stop the big Luna Park kickoff party in Coney Island on Sunday. Those in attendance did need a jacket as they helped start the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>This year also marks an important milestone for one of the rides: The Cyclone roller coaster is rolling into its 99th year in operation, just one shy of an almost-unheard of accomplishment for an amusement park ride.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the weekend&#8217;s ticket sales will support local organizations, like the Coney Island Sharks Sports Education Program and the Coney Island Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be approaching the century mark, but this iconic New York City ride is still thrilling people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,119,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-180433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-coney-island","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180433","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=180433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}