A panel about the Future of Coney Island, which we posted about a while back, will be taking place on Wednesday (3/19) at 6:30PM. Here’s a follow up email we got about it: Lynn Kelly, President of the CIDC, will present the latest proposal for the area and join a panel discussion moderated by Brad […]

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[Photo courtesy of Brit in Brooklyn] Yesterday, of course, was the reopening of Astroland and of Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park for the 2008 season and neither rain nor damp chill stopped it from happening. The photo above comes from the excellent Brit in Brooklyn blog and the one below is from a flickr set posted […]

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We normally wouldn’t post about something with ticket prices this steep, but we dig Coney Island USA and the stabilizing, positive and creative presence that it’s been in Coney Island. They’re having their Spring Gala on May 21 from 7PM-11PM at the Angel Orensanz Center at 127 Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side. Tickets […]

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There’s no such thing as too much Coney Island for us, so here are all the Coney vids we’ve made and posted to the YouTube in the last couple of years.

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Both of Coney Island’s amusement parks open for the season tomorrow. Even though Astroland is getting all the publicity because it’s back from the dead with another “final season,” adajacent Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park also opens on Sunday (3/16). The weather forecast calls for rain, which if memory serves, is what happened on opening day […]

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The quality of this looong video is sucky, but in a toy camera kind of way. The poster writes, “The sights and sounds of Coney Island as filmed by a Fischer Price Pixelvision camera circa 1993. Landmarks include the Cyclone and (now demolished, then abandoned) Thunderbolt roller coasters, the Wonder Wheel, Astroland.”

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Want to see a “Band Organ Rally”? Sunday is your moment. Coney Island USA and the Lady Liberty Chapter of the Automated Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association are helping kick off the Coney Island season with its annual Band Organ Rally. It takes place on Sunday, March 16 from Noon to 4:30PM at Sideshows by the […]

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The Dreamland Roller Rink is opening March 22 at the historic Childs Building in Coney Island. The opening event is an invite-only party that sounds like it will be a blast. Here’s some info from Dianna Carlin (aka Lola Staar, in a picture from her website of her on skates in front of the Childs […]

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Today’s Daily News confirms what everyone already knew: the desperately needed repair of the Coney Island Boardwalk won’t happen until after the summer season, leaving people vulnerable to falls and serious injuries all summer long. Meanwhile, million-plus lawsuits filed by people that have been hurt by what we call Coney’s trip-and-fall boardwalk will continue to […]

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These are a couple of images shot at the “Save Coney Island” event at Southpaw in Park Slope this past weekend sent our way by photographer and blogger Adrian Kinloch. The big–and happy–news that came out of the event is that boardwalk entrepreneur Dianna Carlin, AKA Lola Staar, will be operating a roller rink in […]

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The Childs Building in Coney Island, which will host a roller rink this summer operated by Lola Staar, is one of the most significant surviving structures from the “old” Coney Island. Taconic Development has a long-term lease on the landmarked building and has pledged to restore it. It was built in 1923 to house a […]

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The trash cans at Coney Island will likely be more colorful again this year. There’s going to be a “Trash Barrel Design and Painting Contest” on the boardwalk on April 5. The Coney Island USA website has some brief information about it, calling it “Boardwalk Barrels of Fun!” It will happen on the Boardwalk at […]

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The mystery of where the new, temporary roller rink in Coney Island will be this spring and summer has been solved. The rink, which will be operated by entrepreneur Dianna Carlin, AKA Lola Staar, will be in the historic Childs Restaurant Building, which developers are planning to turn into an eatery and entertainment venue. The […]

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We suppose we could call this a “Construction Site du Jour,” but we’ll simply call it one of Thor Equities many fences in Coney Island. This photo was posted on the Coney Island Message Board by the vigilant Captain Nemo. Those “Future of Coney Island” banners always add to photos.

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Check out this “Mermaids of Brooklyn” vid about the Mermaid Parade, a link to which came to us via an email this week. It was shot on 16mm & Super 8 and directed by Maddy Lederman. Fun stuff.

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Here’s an odd little vid shot in Coney Island in Super 8 in 2004. We do love atmospheric Coney Island videos.

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Yesterday, we ran a gorgeous sunset shot taken by Eric Provost, who is a regular GL photo contributor, in which these two swans could be seen in silhouette. Here they are in a couple of other shots Mr. Provost sent along. He writes,” Never saw swans out in the middle of a beach. They were […]

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Once, there were many hotels in Coney Island. One of them was the Half Moon Hotel on the Boardwalk at W. 29th Street. It was “meant to be a vanguard of western boardwalk expansion, but this plan was derailed by the Great Depression. The hotel served as a naval hospital, the Harbor Hotel, and the […]

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A temporary roller skating rink may be coming to an undisclosed location in Coney Island this summer (our guess is the property owned by developer Joe Sitt), but in the meantime, here’s a reminder of an old rink that used to be on W. 8th Street. The best anyone can do to place this image […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eric Provost] It’s not just that this latest Coney Island sunset photo sent to us by Eric Provost is gorgeous. It is. It’s that there is something fun in the photo if one looks closely. More pics of them tomorrow.

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One of the most remarkably disgusting things about Coney Island on a busy summer day is the extent to which trash piles up. Last summer, at different points, things were better with some cleanup efforts by the Doe Fund, which was hired to provide services. Yesterday, the Coney Island Development Corp. issued a 98-page RFP […]

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Coney Island entrepreneur Dianna Carlin, aka Lola Staar, will be opening a temporary roller rink near the boardwalk this summer. Details come from Sarah Ryley in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, who writes that “details are being finalized to install a temporary roller rink near the boardwalk.” Ms. Carlin would identify the location until a formal […]

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[Photo courtesy of Charles Andrisano] This photo of the Parachute Jump in summer in Coney Island comes from Charles Andrisano, who last contributed a photo of the lunar eclipse as seen from Bay Ridge.

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Are shills for developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities posting on the Coney Island Message Board? Possibly. “While some of these accusations may have been overblown, one recent post by new user ‘born_in_brooklyn’ (who identifies herself as ‘Alice’) is such blatant pro-Thor propaganda that one can’t help but suspect that Thor is employing some nefarious […]

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