 The amusement park young Joe walks by in the film is old Rockaway  Playland located in Rockaway Beach, New York. The park was in its  last year of operation when the film was being made in 1987 and was  subsequently closed and demolished. After remaining an empty lot for  many years the property, in the late nineties, had been developed  with houses built on it. Ironically the Beach 98th train station on  the IND A train still holds the name PLAYLAND in its station name.