[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] Plenty of people showed up for the unique Brookyn tradition of freezing one’s ass off on New Year’s Day. Members of the Polar Bear Club went in the water. Other people, like contributors Meg Groome and Deborah Matlack froze taking pictures of them. A cold, good time was […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack] A small group turned out in Coney Island yesterday to protest redevelopment plans. Contributor Lornagrl writes: “Protesters braved the freezing cold weather this New Years Day for a Save Coney Island Demonstration. It was just a few store fronts down from Ruby’s Bar, which was opened for business, […]

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You didn’t think that New Year’s Day 2009 would pass uneventfully in Coney Island? Of course, there’s the Polar Bear Club swim at 1PM. But word came down late yesterday afternoon that Ruby’s Bar & Grill (though covered with a FOR LEASE sign by Thor Equities) will be open for its Polar Bear Party from […]

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Are you a member of our GL Flickr Pool? Please add your new photos. We love them and we love to post them for our readers to see. And, if you haven’t joined, what are you waiting for? [Photo courtesy of jackszwergold/GL Flickr Pool] This is an old car that has appeared on Henderson Walk […]

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Here’s a free event, after you probably spent all your money on too much booze and/or other stuff this New Year’s Eve. This Thursday (New Years Day, 1/1/09!), as part of the 15th Annual Alternative day of Spoken Word Extravaganza, Mermaid Hawley and Bluesman have 6 minutes to “save Coney Island” sometime between 6-8pm (said […]

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Are you a member of our GL Flickr Pool? Please add your new photos. We love them and we love to post them for our readers to see. And, if you haven’t joined, what are you waiting for? [Photo courtesy of Pablo 57/GL Flickr Pool] There’s nothing we can say about this, except to note […]

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We got an email very early this morning that a number of business owners in Coney Island have been trying to call the “FOR LEASE” phone number at Thor Equities and that they either get no answer or simply a voice mail with the name of Sam Sabin, who handles leasing for Thor in Coney. […]

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[Photo courtesy of jackszwergold/GL Flirck Pool] Just looking at this makes us miss the good old days of spring when one could nod off comfortably on the beach.

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[Photo courtesy of Captain Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] We woke up yesterday to a sad email from Tricia Vita of the Coney Island History Project, saying “my collage was stolen!!! thank you for posting info about the shrine. collage was stolen overnight. it happened overnight….” She directed to photos posted by Captain Nemo showing that […]

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[Photo courtesy of bklynpolar/flickr] Of all the photos of the December 27 Polar Bears Club swim at Coney Island, we were drawn to this one for obvious reasons. Love in freezing cold water. It moves us. There’s a full photoset here.

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[Photo for Gowanus Lounge by Deborah Matlack] We’ve been so busy the last week running photos of the depressing goings on in Coney Island that we didn’t have space to post this gorgeous shot sent to us by contributor Deborah Matlack from a week ago when the boardwalk was covered with ice. Aren’t those winter […]

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[Photos courtesy me-myself-i/flickr] Some people have started a small memorial “shrine” for Astroland on what was the main boardwalk entrance gate. We got this email from Tricia Vita of the Coney Island History Project: Today a friend and I made a shrine on Astroland’s Boardwalk gates. In the photos you can see our collage and […]

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[Photo courtesy me-myself-i/flickr] The work crews taking Astroland apart and putting it storage containers continue taking it apart. Yesterday, after taking a break for Christmas, they got to Dante’s Inferno. The devil’s head on the ride was on of the more popular Coney photos. [Photo courtesy of Captain Nemo/Coney Island Message Board]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] This was the way sunset looked on Christmas Day in Coney Island for those of you who didn’t happen to be there.

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[Photo courtesy of jackszwergold/GL Flickr Pool] Presented without comment, but perhaps with tears.

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[Photo courtesy of jackszwergold/GL Flick Pool] These are some way cool pics of Coney Island in 1991. There’s a full slideshow of them on flickr, but unfortunately no way to embed it, so you’ll have to click here to run through the whole series of pics.

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The intrepid Captain Nemo spent some time on Christmas Day in Coney Island and found that some of the overnight winds were not good to property owned by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities. The pics were posted on the Coney Island Message Board with the title “At least Mother Nature is on our side […]

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These are just a few of the pics that Jack Szwergold shot in Coney Island yesterday of all the “FOR LEASE” that have been put up. He has posted a full photoset that includes equally depressing Astroland Destructoporn shots. What a shitty ass thing to have to see the day after Christmas. And what a […]

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Coney Island woke up on this Christmas Eve morning to huge FOR LEASE signs affixed to every building on the boardwalk. All the photos above are courtesy of Pablo Jonesy who was out there at 7:30 this morning. Apparently owners will be offered new leases by December 30, but the rumor is that rents may […]

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We don’t have the full story of what happened in Coney Island yesterday, except that the we got a phone message from Diana carlin (Lola Staar) that people were being evicted. Meanwhile, photos we being posted on the Coney Island Message Board of “For Lease” signs going up on all the boardwalk businesses. One is […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] In case you haven’t had enough Coney Island this morning, we present this gorgeous shot from Rubys Host of a Coney sunset with water on the left and snow on the beach on the left.

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[Photo courtesy of Kurackt/flickr] This ominous looking shot has to rank among our fifty favorite Coney Island photos of all time. Here’s what the photo wrote about it: “I took this through the window of the Q train. it is grainy and noisy but i like its overall ‘feel.’ Notice the man towards the right […]

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