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Coney Island Casinos Proposed By Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz

Huffington Post - Jan 10, 2012
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is pushing the idea of opening casinos in Coney Island, a vision that aligns with Governor Cuomo's plans to legalize casino gambling in New York state. In a press release, Markowitz praised Cuomo for his ...

Seen It All on Subway? Look Under This Seat

New York Times - Jan 18, 2012
The intrepid marsupial, which had apparently boarded after the train departed from its Coney Island terminus, had curled up beneath a seat, comfortably close to a radiator, as the train rattled through the wilds of Brooklyn. There were several reasons ...

SUNDAY READ: Brooklyn's 'Nucky Thompson' had his own Boardwalk Empire

Brooklyn Daily - Jan 22, 2012
By Dan MacLeod John McKane — the Nucky Thompson of his day — ruled Coney Island with an iron fist (and billy club). Surf Avenue in 1889 was run by the notorious John McKane — Brooklyn's version of Nucky Thompson. Recipients' email addresses (Up to ...

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Just Kids

by: Patti Smith

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.

Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court.
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

by: Kathy Peiss
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? "Cheap Amusements" is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses. Kathy Peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, Coney Island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between 1880 and 1920 as expressed in leisure activities.
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

by: John F. Kasson
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
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Good Old War - Coney Island

Official video for Good Old War - Coney Island Directed by Behn Fannin LISTEN TO GOOD OLD WAR: goodoldwar.bandcamp.com http www.goodoldwar.com twitter.com www.facebook.com

 

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Death Cab for Cutie- Coney Island Music Video

Music Video for Coney Island, Death Cab for Cutie St.Joseph Michigan Winter Crazy Thing Inc. CTI.

 

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Coney Island And Astroland Amusement Park An Extensive Tour

Coney Island is a peninsula, formerly an island, in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA, with a beach on the Atlantic Ocean. The neighborhood of the same name is a community of 60000 people in the western part of the peninsula, with Seagate to its west; Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east; and Gravesend to the north. The area was a major resort and site of amusement parks that reached its peak in the early 20th century. It declined in popularity after World War II and endured years of neglect. In recent years, the area has seen the opening of MCU Park, home to the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team. Native American inhabitants, the Lenape, called the island Narrioch[citation needed] (land without shadows), because, as is true of other south shore Long Island beaches, its compass orientation keeps the beach area in sunlight all day.[citation needed] The Dutch name for the island was Conyne Eylandt (Konijnen Eiland in modern Dutch spelling),meaning Rabbit Island. This name is found on the New Netherland map of 1639 by Johannes Vingboon. (New York State and New York City were originally a Dutch colony and settlement, named Nieuw Nederlandt and Nieuw Amsterdam.) As on other Long Island barrier islands, Coney Island had many and diverse rabbits and rabbit hunting prospered until resort development eliminated their habitat. It is generally accepted by scholars that Coney Island is an English adaptation of the Dutch name, Konijnen Eiland. Coney is also ...

 

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Coney Island (1917) Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (part 1 of 2)

Coney Island (also known as Fatty at Coney Island) is a 1917 short silent film comedy written and directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The twenty-four minute film follows Arbuckle's antics at Coney Island, the New York City amusement park and beach resort, where he sneaks away from his wife to enjoy the attractions, gets a rival for another woman arrested, and disguises himself as a woman. The Keystone Kops are also featured. Coney Island was filmed before Keaton had fully established his screen persona. Because of this, he employs a wide range of facial expressions, including mugging and laughing, differing drastically from his subsequent unsmiling, but still eloquent, expression. Arbuckle breaks the fourth wall in one scene where, about to change his clothes, he directly looks at the camera and gestures for it to raise its view above his waist; the camera obligingly does so.

 

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The Coral - Coney Island

The Coral - Coney Island Eleventh song on their new album Butterfly House. Released on the 12th of July 2010.