Many of the stores on the Coney Island Boardwalk that weren’t evicted are getting major facelifts and this process is revealing all sorts of nostalgic gems, the latest of which includes a basement style bar known as a rathskeller. Read more »
Getting trapped in a supermarket sounds like it would be fun, unless you happen to work there and are being held against your will by your boss. Employees of the Fine Fare Supermarket in Coney Island were “essentially caged” in overnight by management. The building was turned into a modern version of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — all of the exits were padlocked and had locked sliding bolts. Read more »
Organizers of Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest have deleted Takeru Kobayashi’s image from their “Wall of Fame” in Coney Island reports the Brooklyn Paper. As you may recall, the world champion eater wasn’t allowed to compete last July due to a contract dispute, so he jumped on stage to protest and was promptly arrested. Read more »
Miss Coney? Come see its roots: all those incandescent electric fun parks (that so often burned out), terrible freak shows, funny bathing clothes and mustaches and the public electrocution of Topsy the elephant in vintage photographs. Also on display: “a charred remnant of a Steeplechase wooden horse,” one of many olde rides that look very fun and very, very unsafe. And fun. Nickel Empire: Coney Island Photographs 1889-1948, Jan 27 – Feb 26, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NYC
The eight boardwalk operators in Coney Island that were told to close up shop say the New York Post’s claim about them “quietly trying” to settle for $250,000 each is patently false.
Coney Island fixtures like Shoot the Freak have no problem leaving the boardwalk to make way for corporate franchises… if they get paid. The owner of the attraction along with eight other business are suing the company put in charge with redeveloping the site with the hopes of “quietly trying to reach a settlement” to the tune of $250k each reports the New York Post.
Now that Coney Island is being transformed into a franchise friendly location devoid of any character, New York Lives’ Jeremy Rocklin created a tribute video highlighting some of the attractions and businesses that are getting evicted in favor of more corporately sanitized ones.
As long as professional eater, Takeru Kobayashi, doesn’t get arrested in the next six months, the four charges against him for disrupting Coney Island’s hot dog gagging contest will be dismissed. That gives him more than enough time to plan a similar ambush in 2011 and not even have to worry about the first case should he get arrested again. Read more »
Because you can never have enough footage of a professional hot dog eater getting arrested, here’s another angle of Takeru Kobayashi’s now infamous brush with the NYPD, clearly the most exciting thing to happen at Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest ever. Read more »
Kobayashi Arrested At Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest
Due to some contract dispute, Takeru Kobayashi did not compete in this year’s hot dog eating contest at Coney Island, but he didn’t fail to disappoint fans. The six-time winner paraded through the crowd wearing a ‘Free Kobi” t-shirt, which is kind of fitting, since he was arrested shortly after the “competition” ended when he jumped on stage and refused to leave. Read more »
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