A trip to Coney Island was quite the adventure in the 1890s, as depicted in this joyous image of suited passengers hanging off a train car.
How to Get to Coney Island in the 1890s? Hold On for Your Life
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Freaks and Creeks and Wild Rabbits: How Coney Island Got Its Name
The People's Playground has assumed a far different identity than its dated name implies, as it was assigned in a time when Coney was still a real island.
Coney Island Reopening for the Season With Free Wonder Wheel Rides This Sunday
Update: Due to predictions of snow for Sunday, Coney Island has rescheduled its opening-day celebration for 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 26.
Along with the spring equinox, this Sunday, March 20, will mark the reopening of Coney Island’s Luna Park and Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park.
Coney Island’s Lost Bicycle Racing Velodrome
Photo via Ephemeral New York
Bicycles may be the thing here in 21st century Brooklyn, but all of the borough’s current bike venues have nothing on Coney Island’s former bicycling stadium.
Your Guide to Coney Island Entertainment Through the New Year
Photo by Luna Park NYC via Flickr
As 2015 draws to a close, Coney Island only gets wilder.
Brooklyn’s Climate Crisis: Is the Borough Doomed?
Photo by Hannah Frishberg
Brooklyn is intensely threatened by the very real threat of global warming and rising sea levels, according to panelists at a recent BRIC TV event.
Expansive Coney Island Exhibit Opens at the Brooklyn Museum
The Great Fredini swallows a sword at a press preview Wednesday
An exhibit on the People’s Playground opening today at the Brooklyn Museum is as colorful and surprising as its subject, Coney Island’s many incarnations, from beach resort to nickel empire and back again.
Brooklyn Museum Launching Three Coney Island–Centric Exhibits
The Brooklyn Museum is opening three Coney Island–centric exhibits this month, including a series of photographs and site-specific installations honoring the People’s Playground.
Lutz Dille’s Photos of Coney Island in 1962
Coney Island, NYC, 1962 © Estate of Lutz Dille, courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery
German-born street photographer Lutz Dille had a knack for capturing candid moments in dirty back alleys and teeming cities.
Coney Island: Brooklyn’s Playground
This post courtesy of Explore Brooklyn, an all-inclusive guide to the businesses, neighborhoods, and attractions that make Brooklyn great.
Geographically, Coney Island is a sandy peninsula, formerly an island, just beyond lower New York Bay about five miles south of Manhattan that is about 4 miles (6.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide.
Culturally, however, it is one of the most significant and recognizable neighborhoods in New York City. From its early days as one of the world’s first sea resorts to its mid-20th Century status as a symbol of urban blight, it became a powerful emblem of Brooklyn’s resurgence.
Pavilion of Fun postcard by Coney Island History via Facebook.
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