Stick It In Your Eye, London: Staten Island to Get 625-Foot Ferris Wheel, World’s Largest

Finally, a reason for tourists to get off the Staten Island Ferry after taking their free site-seeing cruise. Today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will travel to St. George to finalized plans to construct the world’s largest ferris wheel at the northern tip of Richmond County. The oversized amusement is part of a larger hotel and retail complex to be developed by BFC Partners, a local real estate concern.

Mayor Bloomberg touted the new ferris wheel as yet another investment by his administration in the North Shore of Staten Island.
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