»In which I could not keep from smiling

Just as Death Cab for Cutie sang, so Brooklyn fills in Coney Island:

We might be looking at vacant lots for a long time to come,” said Charles Denson, executive director of the Coney Island History Project. “Everybody’s broke. These massive plans, these visions, don’t usually work. But I hope for the best.”

They sang: "I can hear the Atlantic echo back roller coaster screams from summers past.
And everything was closed at Coney Island, and I could not help from smiling.
Brooklyn will fill in the beach eventually and everyone will go except me." The developers are singing the same song, and I will fondly remember the first time, every time, and the last time I visited Coney Island.