Tag: Coney Island
Just in time for this afternoon’s nice weather, here’s a series of 1960s-era photos of Coney Island from photographer Aaron Rose. Check out that muscleman! Rose’s work will be displayed in “In a World of Their Own: Coney Island Photographs,” an exhibition opening next Friday at the Museum of the City of New York. “In a World […]
Earlier today, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and the people who run Coney Island’s amusement park broke ground on the Thunderbolt, a brand new steel roller coaster being constructed to replace the wood one of the same name that operated for nearly six decades. It was decommissioned in 1982 and illegally torn down by then […]
A cop afraid of a dog and its unarmed owner opened fire on them inside their own Coney Island apartment building, according to a lawsuit. Fortunately, the shots missed and neither Elizabeth Villafane nor her bullmastiff Bubba were hurt. The pair cops were in Villafane’s building to issue a warrant for her arrest for walking an […]
The landscape of New York keeps on changing, but Coney Island is cruising through time with the same vivid and dissolute charm, against its own “transition.” As summer wraps up, the gritty seaside amusement district is effervescent, the boardwalk filled with bronzed and tattooed flesh and grinning characters, chasing and squeezing in the last bit of […]
Here’s the new video for Hot Sugar’s “Leverage,” which finds the producer chilling in Coney Island along with Kool A.D., Fat Tony, Lakutis, and Nasty Nigel of World’s Fair. Judging by the snow still on the ground and the general destruction all around, the clip looks like it was shot sometime last winter, when Coney […]
Coney Island, for all its charm, has always been a bit of a tough sell for out-of-town tourists. The beach’s old-school aesthetic is a far cry from antiseptic Manhattan, for one thing, and getting there requires a long ride to the end of D, F, N, or Q. Recent development projects like the new Luna Park are […]
New York-based artist Leslie Thornton‘s new video installation Luna is more than just an immersive, three-channeled, kaleidoscopic spectacle. It’s a new form of digital storytelling, spanning the history of Coney Island from 1900 to some time in the not-too-distant future. In lieu of actors and dialogue, Luna stars the iconic Parachute Jump, whose gradual metamorphosis is witnessed through […]
Over the past 30 years, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has become the country’s largest art parade. With its shimmering, extravagant floats, fabulously zany performers, and pastie-plastered nips as far as the eye can see, there’s really nothing like it. But after Sandy destroyed the freakshow, museum, and performance space whose revenue provides funding, this […]
Months after Hurricane Sandy, New York City is steadily moving towards rebuilding the areas that were most heavily damaged, including the beaches of Coney Island, Staten Island, and the Rockaways. As a part of that process, it’s enlisted the help of Garrison Architects to design and build new flood-resistant, modular, ultra-efficient structures that can function […]
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced it will partially reopen Coney Island’s New York Aquarium this spring, after it was shuttered in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Though there’s no word on when exactly the public will get to hang out with him, but the conservation society wants us to know that Mitik, the semi-celebrity baby […]
