Here’s a very nicely done little vid about a trip to Coney Island.

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Here’s an interesting vid that was just posted on YouTube that we found thanks to Kinetic Carnival. The person that posted it writes: “Using a silent home movie camera in 1978 I filmed scenes around Norman Kaufman’s Steeplechase Park in Coney Island. I had worked on the Go-Kart ride (which is why that ride is […]

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[Image courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography]

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There’s a panel discussion on “The Future of Coney Island” coming up at the Museum of the City of New York on Wednesday, March 19 at 6:30PM. We found it via the Historic Districts Council Newsstand and the Coney Island Message Board. Here’s a bit about it: Lynn Kelly, President of the CIDC, will present […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eric Provost] We were going to put this photo in our Street Couch Series, but since it’s only a chair, and a wooden one at that, we decided against it. The photo comes from Eric Provost, who hit us off with a bonanza of images this week. The blue fence is the […]

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The Coney Island boardwalk may be going synthetic. Today’s Post reports that the city is going to test out replacing the wood in the most dangerous section of the badly deteriorated boardwalk with synthetic planks that look like wood. The Parks Department is going to solicit bids starting Friday for boardwalk replacement from West 12th […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eric Provost] Among the many great photos we got from Eric Provost this week (you can see yesterday’s post here) is this wonderful sunset shot from Coney Island.

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[Photos courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Brooklyn photographer Deborah Matlack who often sends us cool photos, especially of Coney Island, passed along some photos of the gazebo that is the site of a very cool summer scene on the boardwalk with much Latino music and dancing. Sadly, a nasty fate has befallen the gazebo this winter, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eric Provost] This Coney Island sunset photo from regular GL photo contributor Eric Provost is only one of several he’s sent us that we’ll be featuring over the next few days. Check out a a serious of previous gorgeous Coney shots here.

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We are behind on our winter visits to Coney Island, compared to last year, when we were stopping in weekly to photograph the Thor Equities tear downs and land clearance. Indy Rob Leddy posted this photo by David Gratt on the Coney Island Message Board of the work going on to renovate the building that […]

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$8,000 in rent for the summer will get your a “great spot opposite WONDER WHEEL. Very busy location. Rent includes all utilities. Perfect for game or novelties. Rent payable in 3 installments. Season ends Sept. 30th.”–Craigslist

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[Photos courtesy of Capt. Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] It definitely looks like, having cleared amusements and tenants from their Coney Island land in 2007, developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities are looking to generate some revenue from it in 2008. Whether this turns out to be good news for Coney Island remains to be seen–it […]

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Forget redoing the new lighting at the Parachute Jump or returning it to use as a ride. It’s already a favorite spot for peregrine falcons. “The unused steel tower is a favorite perch for the local peregrines…it was during my first or second game that I discovered the raptor’s choice perch. Our seats were along […]

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This isn’t so much a video as a collection of still shots–many of them quite lovely–of Coney Island set to a favorite Coney song, Death Cab for Cutie’s “Coney Island.”

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A bunch of cool Coney photos, many of which look like they were shot from a cherry picker on the boardwalk on a foggy day, are finally online along with a short essay on Coney Island. A sample: “Like most oceanfront real estate, Coney Island has forever attracted self-anointed improvers with all manner of motives. […]

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It’s nice to be able to note on a Saturday morning when it’s gray and slushy outside that the big Coney Island event known as the Mermaid Parade has been scheduled for Saturday, June 21 this year. All relevant details to follow as time goes on.

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The much-needed and quite impressive renovation of the New York Aquarium in Coney Island is being “watered down because of soaring costs,” according to Jotham Sederstrom in today’s Daily News. Earlier this week, Sarah Ryley of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle broke the story that the renovation had been put on the back burner because of […]

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Thor Equities has hired a lawyer to represent it in negotiations with the city again a local Council Member’s declaration that the land swap proposed by the Bloomberg Administration “is dead.” The developments were reported this week by Sarah Ryley in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The Thor lawyer is Jesse Maysr and a member of […]

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Is that cool makeover of the New York Aquarium dead? The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s Sarah Ryley reports that it could be sinking and might have been one of the things behind Borough President Marty Markowitz’s call for a Brooklyn coup d’etat to takeover the aquarium’s board of directors. The text is posted on the Coney […]

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One of the boardwalk gazebos in Coney Island (one of the most popular gathering spots, in fact) is now in a battered state. Actually, it’s been flattened, looking like it was hit by a car or truck, unless gravity and the wind conspired with rot to take it down. Will it be rebuilt in time […]

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[Photo courtesy of Capt Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] Coney Island watchers might remember that one of the first things that got the bulldozer treatment after developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities bought up land in Coney Island was the ragtag assortment of stands on Stillwell Avenue between the boardwalk and Surf Avenue. Some sold food. […]

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The Coney story and photos that were published in print last week is finally online. “Kitsch nixes nostalgia. A pleasure strand designated for adolescent amusement, did it experience an adolescence of its own? Perhaps a century and a half ago, when it was still a hunting ground for the ubiquitous rabbits that gave it its […]

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[Bottom photo courtesy of Captain Nemo, Coney Island Message Board] While the B&B Carousell itself was saved and will someday reappear as part of the city’s planned Steeplechase Plaza, the sign for it that has been on Surf Avenue since the days of Luna Park is now gone. It fell victim to a paint job […]

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“Coney” – Excerpt from the Documentary from Mike Healey on Vimeo.This is a short preview of a very interesting documentary about Coney Island that we found on Vimeo. Enjoy.

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When all is said and done, lighting up the Parachute Jump will have cost $3.45 million, give or take. Last week, Borough President Marty Markowitz announced a $2 million redo of the lighting designed by Leni Schwendinger and the city issued an RFP for the job. Mr. Markowitz is now calling it “Phase II” of […]

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