So Marty Markowitz announced yesterday that Coney Island’s Luna Park will stay open through October. Since it opened in June of 2010, 400,000 visitors have enjoyed the revamped amusement park, which is part of the city’s revitalization plan.

The original Luna Park, which was festooned with literally hundreds of thousands of lights, opened in 1903 and burned down in 1944.

Watching the new HBO show, Boardwalk Empire, and especially the great set created in Brooklyn, one gets a sense of what the original Luna Park might have been like.