[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch] This photo from Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Photo Contributor Adrian Kinloch captures the very essence of our big wooden roller coaster friend, the Cyclone. It’s a moment frozen in time that rather says it all.

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The official Opening of the Beach Ceremony at Coney Island next Friday should have a colorful backdrop when a Save Coney Island demonstration takes place. The demonstration is happening at 10:30 AM on the Boardwalk, with demonstrators gathering at 9:45. Per the Save Coney group: “It will be a great opportunity to communicate our message.” […]

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[Photo courtesy of GerritsenBeach.Net/flickr] Thor Equities has unveiled its summer strategy for CConey Island and its 2008 summer theme: “Summer of Hope.” The developer, whose holdings include a large parcel of land between Coney’s Bowery and the Boardwalk on both sides of Stillwell Avenue was previously reported to be bringing a carnival ride operator to […]

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This is the Royal Palace, a banya in Brighton Beach (or on the edge of Coney Island if one prefers that definition of the location. We found it via Flatbush Pigeon and were immediately mesmerized. Who knew that a place like this existed? Not only does it exist, but it’s brand new. The website is […]

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“Coney Island’s cheap, sure, but keeping it around ain’t. That’s why multitudes of tireless seaside talent—mermaids, roller girls, and so on—will be swallowing swords, spinning from ropes, and generally raising hell next Wednesday at the Coney Island USA Spring Gala, at the Angel Orensanz Center….”–Runnin Scared

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Have you joined our new Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool on flickr yet? If you take photos of Brooklyn and would like to share them with us, we hope you will, and that you’ll tag your photos gowanuslounge. [Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] The quiet of Coney Island in the morning in Spring and Summer is quite […]

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While the overall plan to rezone Coney Island covers a significant portion of the areas closest to the water and would lead to massive changes in what could be built, the heart of the dispute is about 15 acres of land in ts amusement district. The original city plan proposed rezoning 15 acres as parkland […]

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For one of the first times in ongoing debate over the redevelopment of Coney Island, some of the most prominent organizations involved in the amusement district are presenting a united front. The target is the city’s revised development plan for the neighborhood, which shrinks the city’s original proposal for a 15 acre amusement park to […]

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The initial lineup for the 8th Annual Village Voice Siren Music Festival has been announced. Performers include Stephen Malkmus and Jicks, Broken Social Scene, the Helio Sequence, Beach House, Times New Viking, Jaguar Love, The Dodos, Annuals, Film School, Parts & Labor, Dragons of Zynth and These are Powers. So far. The music festival takes […]

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The Coney Island Museum is closed through May 24 due to renovations. The entire building at 1208 Surf Avenue is getting a major facelift. Look for the Freak Bar, among other things, soon.–Coney Island Message Board

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[Photo courtesy of Captain Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] It looks like the city is, uh, fixing a particularly decrepit and dangerous portion of the Coney Boardwalk (other health-and-safety threatening spots, not so much.) It had tossed up a fence around this segment in front of the Lola Staar Boutique and other businesses a fews ago. […]

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[Photo courtesy of catmarlson/flickr] The Brooklyn Half Marathon took place yesterday on a course that ran from Coney Island to Prospect Park. There’s a cool photo set of the event posted on flickr by catmarlson should you wish to check it out.

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[Photo courtesy of shveckle/flickr] This cool Coney Island photo come from our new Gowanus Lounge photo pool. If you post Brooklyn photos on flickr, please join the pool and tag your photos gowanuslounge.

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There are more screen shots and even vids of Grand Theft Auto IV scenes in Coney Island. Kinetic Carnival has posted a number of stills and YouTube clips which were originally posted on the Coney Island Message Board by Switchback. They are riveting in their own way to those interested in Coney.

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Check out the latest episode of Brooklyn Independent Television’s A Walk Around the Blog featuring Ben Nadler of Kinetic Carnival looking at a community garden in Coney Island.

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It’s anyone’s guess what the final Coney Island resolution will be, but for now, we can say that developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities have found a new use for some of their land: a parking lot. The big plot of land along Stillwell Avenue that experienced premature demolition last year was being used (at […]

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We hit Brighton Beach & Coney Island yesterday evening. Here are 59 seconds of that experience.

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Last week, the city announced a huge change in its Coney Island plan, shrinking the core of the Coney Island amusement district from 15 acres to 9 and, in turn, leaving a significant amount of land the city would have purchased from developer Joe Sitt potentially in his hands to develop (or sell with changed […]

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Check out this photo record of a day’s travel from Sheepshead Bay through Coney Island via subway to Bay Ridge. There are photo galore and they say something.–Erica’s Blog

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It is correctly pointed out that “blogs are not a medium known for focusing on or endorsing neckties,” but when the tie in question is a Parachute Jump Tie, well, it’s going to be listed.–Kinetic Carnival

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Coney Island Development Corp. President Lynn Kelly sent out an email late yesterday about what she called “recent modest adjustments to the Coney Island zoning framework that have both strengthened our finalized plans and will help to move this critically important project toward completion.” Ms. Kelly adds that the changes have “increased development opportunities for […]

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The city has made some major changes to its Coney Island plan in an effort to craft a compromise with landowners like developer Joe Sitt and to get it moving. Today’s Times reports that the core amusement area that would be acquired from landowners has been reduced from 15 acres to nine acres and that […]

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Make sure to check out the interview with Jon Dohlin, the new director of the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. A sample: “Here’s what’s not going to happen – except in my dreams: we’re not going to blow the place up, and start over. Even something as completely agreed upon – in terms of […]

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The city has put up a big fence around sagging parts of the boardwalk rather than repairing it and Coney Island businesses are very angry about it. Boardwalk entrepreneur Dianna Carlin, who owns the Lola Staar Boutique, and whose store is somewhat blocked by the fence, sent out a press release headlined “Free the Boardwalk!” […]

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The saga of the decrepit Coney Island boardwalk has just gotten curiouser. Rather than make emergency repairs on dangerously sagging and deteriorated portions of the boardwalk before the summer season, the Parks Department has put up a big fence, right in front of a number of Coney Island businesses including the Lola Staar Boutique and […]

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