During its heyday, Starlight Park featured various amusement rides, as well as the Bronx Coliseum and the submarine USS Holland.

The northeastern part of the amusement park became the West Farms Depot of MTA Regional Bus Operations.

[4] The exposition, intended to showcase the recent creation of Bronx County, was so unsuccessful that it only attracted one country, Brazil.

Throughout that year Starlight Park's operators added several attractions and concessions, including shooting galleries, games of chance, and a dark ride through an exhibit of "grottos and other worldly sights".

[8] The park continued to add attractions and events for the 1921 season, including a baseball field, several shows, and a kid's club.

[20][21] With the start of the Great Depression in 1929, Starlight Park's operators installed several rides, as well as launched promotions such as free-admission days and contests, in an attempt to increase its visitor count.

[17] On August 8, 1932, a large section of Starlight Park was destroyed in a fire that started under the now-abandoned roller coaster and spread to numerous concessions.

However, Starlight Park also continued to make a profit from the swimming pool, picnic areas, and sporting fields.

[17][24] The new owner, Richard F. Mount, leased the structures to a syndicate in May 1941, which in turn proposed building new sporting fields on the site.

[7]: 152 [25] The stucco and wood bathing pavilion was damaged in a fire in July 1946[26][27] and was totally destroyed by another blaze the next year.

[33][34] Another 11-acre (4.5 ha) segment remained closed because of a disagreement with Amtrak, who owned the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks on the park's eastern edge.

[33] This coincided with another plan to downgrade Sheridan Expressway to a street-level boulevard so that the surrounding community could more easily access Starlight Park.

The project was undertaken to improve pedestrian safety and increase access to both Starlight Park and the Bronx River shoreline.

[43][44] Current recreational facilities in Starlight Park include four baseball fields (two made of grass and two of asphalt), as well as five checkers tables and eight handball courts.

[42] Plans for the park, announced in 2017, call for a waterfront greenway, as well as the opening of the parkland on the eastern bank of the Bronx River.

[47]: 536 [48] The fair also contained a scenic ridable miniature railway on the Bronx River, a "mountain" exhibit with a 65-foot-tall (20 m) waterfall, and a hotel nearby.

[47]: 536–537  LaMarcus Adna Thompson built a wooden roller coaster at the site,[48] which featured a dual track.

She had been maintained by the navy at Norfolk, Virginia, for training purposes until 1914, when she became a museum ship in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, New Jersey.

[20][21] It was the home field of the New York Giants soccer team, but also featured numerous other sporting events as well as circuses.

[19][54] Starting in 1926, the park offered free 14-week-long programs of opera music in the summer, in an attempt to give the masses access to high culture at no cost.

[51] On Saturday nights, big-band jazz played for dancers on an outdoor dance floor, giving the park a feeling of "blue collar country club".

[9] Events such as baseball and soccer games, boxing matches, horseshoe throwing, and track and field competitions also drew crowds to Starlight Park.

[17] Children were also able to join a club called the Kiddie Klub, which entitled the member to several designated free-admission days at numerous amusement parks in New York City.