Coney Island Aquarium will partly reopen on May 25
The New York Aquarium will partially reopen on May 25, a milestone that will be celebrated about seven months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the 14-acre aquarium campus.
“We have worked nonstop to ensure that the marine life in the aquarium was safe and secure,” Cristián Samper, president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, said in a statement Friday. “We want to share this progress with New Yorkers and be a part of the Coney Island comeback.”
Sandy’s surge overran carefully calibrated tanks with oily, debris-filled water, knocked out even backup power to all the exhibits and made it impossible to check on some of them for days. Managers contemplated shipping animals away and wondered whether the institution itself could survive in its spot on Coney Island.