[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] This is an AVP Volleyball Tournament pregame going on in Coney Island. The actual games start on Friday and run through Sunday. More info here. The pic comes from Rubys Host via our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool.

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] There are only a few community gardens left in Coney Island and they are threatened because the city is looking at the property for use as parking lots. Regular GL Contributor Deborah Matlack, whose photography is superb, has visited one of these gardens many times and is checking out […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This is a photo of the Time’s Up Sunset Ride to Coney Island that took place over the weekend that was sent to us by Brit in Brooklyn blogger and valued GL Contributor (and all-around nice person) Adrian Kinloch. Check out a few more shots over at BIB.

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You may have already seen this over at Brooklyn Vegan and other music sites, but we figure it’s worth posting the schedule for Saturday’s Siren Festival in Coney Island. Full info about the fest here.

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Beach Volleyball season starts today in Coney Island in terms of competitive tournaments. There’s action today and tomorrow through 6PM. This weekend is the Parks Department’s Citywide Beach Volleyball Tournament. (More info by clicking here.) Next weekend is the AVP Crocs Tour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. More info about the latter, including tickets, here.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Where, you might ask, is this gorgeous sunset view from? Coney Island, of course, from a bit of an elevation. The pic comes from the superb selection of photos submitted to our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool by Rubys Host.

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[Photo courtesy of Scott/Coney Island Message Board] It’s looking like that July 19 opening date for the Dreamland Roller Rink in the Childs Building on the Boardwalk in Coney Island is a pretty sure thing. It was first reported by Kinetic Carnival on Tuesday.

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There’s some great unofficial news from Coney Island passed on by Kinetic Carnival: Lola Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink, which had a debut in the spring, will be open on weekends through the rest of the Coney Island season at the historic Childs Building. Kinetic Carnival reports that it will open on July 19 and be […]

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Go canoeing on Coney Island Creek, which has both natural life and the fascinating remains of sunken ships. It takes place on Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13 at Noon. To register call (718) 421-2021 after 9:00 a.m. on July 7.–Kinetic Carnival

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Here’s a fun vid posted to the YouTube in the last couple of days called “We Go to Coney Island.” We were pointed to it by Kinetic Carnival.

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Fans of Coney’s Beer Island and BBQ may know of the BBQ truck there. “…this fellow loves BBQ like a Kansas City native (which he is) and loves Brooklyn like a New Yorker (which they are now—Bed-Stuy, actually, where he ponders parking the cue-mobile for business in winter). Beer Island, for all its improvised roughness, […]

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[Photo courtesy of vidiot/flickr] This photo certainly manages to capture the unique joy that is stuffing dozens of hot dogs into one’s mouth in ten minutes. As everyone most likely knows Joey Chestnut beat Takeru Kobayashi in a kind of sudden death overtime, after the two champs ended up tied at 50 hot dogs each […]

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Here are some vids posted to the YouTube of yesterday’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at Nathan’s in Coney Island.

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[Photo Courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Photo Pool] Here’s the scene in Coney Island before the big eating contest yesterday, as contributed to our GL Photo Pool by Rubys Host.

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[AP Photo courtesy of Coney Island History Project] We return to our Brooklyn Back in the Day series of historic Brooklyn photos with one that is entirely appropriate to July 4. This is a photo from the Coney Island History Project–whose website is worth checking out and whose facility on Surf Avenue under the Cylcone […]

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Yes, we’re very heavy on Coney items on this Fourth of July, but why not? Here are some vids from Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contests of the past:

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Given that it’s July 4, why not a list of upcoming Coney Island events, starting with today’s big show, the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, which starts at noon: July 4 at 12:00 pm Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Stillwell and Surf Avenues July 19 Village Voice Siren Music Festival on two stages: one on […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Another pretty Coney Island sunset placed in our GL Flickr Pool courtesy of Rubys Host.

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We found this via Kinetic Carnival, which is turning today and to which we wish a very happy birthday and offer our congrats for two wonderful years of superb and vital posts on Coney Island. We love you!!! The poster on YouTube writes: “This is bonus footage from the movie End of the Line. This […]

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With the raucous Coney Island Scoping Hearing an amusing memory, it’s worth noting that it is still possible to submit written testimony about the Coney Island rezoning proposal. While are appropriate, the scoping process determines the study of the proposal that is done, so specific comments related to what the city should study in terms […]

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The short documentary about Diana Carlin (aka Lola Staar) and her Dreamland Roller Rink has been posted online at the Glamour website. (The magazine was one of the sponsors of the event at the Childs Building in the Spring.) It’s interesting and features interview with Diana, historian Charles Denson, developer Charles Bendit of Taconic Investment […]

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Lola Staar wasn’t able to make the Scoping Hearing on the Coney Island plan, which has in turn led to the eruption a little, uh, back-and-forth discussion on the Coney Island Message Board, because she was attending the premiere of the documentary made about the Dreamland Roller Rink event at Childs Restaurant earlier this year. […]

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It’s hard to know what to make of this pic of the cast of Gossip Girl sauntering down the Coney Island boardwalk in a photo from Vanity Fair with, in the words of Curbed, “evening wear flowing, skinny ties flapping in the breeze, champagne replacing de rigueur large beers from Nathan’s.” Yet, there it is, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flicrk Pool] Here’s another superb photo from Rubys Host via our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool. It was taken during one of many storms this past weekend and it is very good.

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[Photo courtesy of rubys host/GL Flickr Pool] Every Friday night from now through Labor Day, they’ll be having fireworks on the beach. This is a shot of the ones this week that come to us via our Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool from frequent contributor Rubys Host.

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