http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/everything must go http://gawker.com/tag/everything must go Last year was supposed to be the final year for Coney Island's Astroland Amusement Park. So I F trained it up and went to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone, which really was quite scary due to its decrepit condition. But this weekend is the official start of Astroland's Second Annual "likely final season." Nothing says spring like false nostalgia! [amNY]

]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:50:01 EDT rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368045&view=rss&microfeed=true Andrew Cuomo, gradually moving up in the world from "not his father" to "not Eliot Spitzer", has subpoenaed Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank in his crusading subprime mortgage investigation. And now Merrill Lynch is predicting "an almost unremittingly gloomy forecast for the US economy next year." It's all your fault, deadbeat consumers! You made them lend to you! [NYT, Telegraph]

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:40:00 EST Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=330320&view=rss&microfeed=true