Thrilling New Chance to Get Queasy Is Planned for Coney Island

N.Y.C. Economic Development Corp. The new Thunderbolt roller coaster, shown in  an artist rendering, is slated to open next year on Coney Island. It will be taller and faster than the Cyclone.

It won’t exactly be THE Thunderbolt, but it will definitely be the Thunderbolt: The city announced on Tuesday that a new roller coaster would open on Coney Island next year on the site of the old Thunderbolt, the roller coaster that once rivaled the Cyclone and makes a famous appearance in “Annie Hall.”

The new Thunderbolt, to be built and operated by the owner of (the new) Luna Park at Coney Island near West 16th Street, will be faster, taller and longer than the Cyclone, if less lovably rickety.

The whole ride will be 125 feet tall and more than a third of a mile long, and riders will be pulled up 110 feet and dropped down into a series of “elements and inversions” at speeds up to 65 miles an hour, according to the city’s Economic Development Corporation.

“The ride will then make its return through a series of ‘bunny hills’ that will give riders a floating sensation until the train returns,” the city said in a news release. More renderings can be seen here.

Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times In 1969, Fred Moran and his mother, Mollie Moran, posed outside their house, which was beneath the Thunderbolt. Mr. Moran managed the roller coaster, which his father had built.

The original Thunderbolt operated on the site from 1925 until 1982 and was torn down by the Giuliani administration - illegally, a federal jury found - in 2000.

The house below the Thunderbolt, the fictional childhood home of Alvy Singer in “Annie Hall,” burned down in 1991. There are no plans to rebuild it.

Aaron Jackson/Associated Press By 2000, the Thunderbolt was derelict and doomed.