[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/flickr] We love photos of Coney Island in the snow and this one from Rubys Host of the Cyclone rocks.

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is Luna Park in Coney Island 1906. It burned to the the ground in a spectacular fire in August, 1944.

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[Photo courtesy of Mr. Jonesey/Coney Island Message Board] The slow and painful death of Astroland continues with rides being dismantled and put into shipping containers and the fate of the iconic Astroland rocket and Astrotower still up in the air. This is a pic of the death scene in the snow.

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This is a super cool vid of the old Thunderbolt Roller Coaster, in all its diminished glory, in Coney Island not long before Rudy Giuliani ordered it demoished. It was just posted in the last few days.

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Nathan Kensinger] You know that things in Coney Island are fucked up when Shoot the Freak starts falling apart. (Well, it’s fallen apart in past winters too.) But there’s something symbolic about Shoot the Freak’s sign falling apart and the spot looking like shit, particularly when its owner is one […]

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Just somewhat symbolic, that’s all, with the destruction of the park goiing on within. Video from the intrepid Captain Nemo.

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This song reduces snarky assholes like us to streaming tears for obvious reasons and for very private and personal ones. These are few vids made using Death Cab for Cutie’s Coney Island. We posted one that we’d made a couple of years ago yesterday, and it, too, is on this list. This song combined with […]

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GL’s Meg Greene checked out the Polar Bears on Saturday at Coney Island and came away with a bunch of photos and a lot of observations. She wrote us: Today was a perfect day to take pictures at Coney Island, the light was great and it was a bit warmer than yesterday. After taking a […]

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We had intended to go to Coney Island to shoot the destruction of Astroland yesterday, which we’ve beenn avoiding because it personally hurts, but some things happened to interfere with that. We’re putting up this old vid for a very special old friend whose kinship we will miss dearly. With deep thanks for all. Maybe […]

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As workers continue to dismantle Astroland and put rides into shipping containers (which could conceivably be brought back if there is some agreement to reopen the park next year), things are looking very grim. We got this email from the Save Coney Island group last night that the iconic Astroland Rocket might be destroyed and […]

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This is a gorgeous and touching vid shot on the fishing pier in Coney Island that touches us deeply and that we think might move another soul or two as well, including some of our very own correspondents. We found it through Kinetic Carnival. Please take three minutes from your day and watch it.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Utterly stunning.

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Lovers of interesting looking buildings might recall The Sochi, which will be a Coney Island/Brighton Beach classic. If it ever happens, as there was word last year the site was on the market. GL Contributor and talented photographer lornagrl was passing by the site yesterday morning and had an interesting encounter: This morning I was […]

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A strange little short film shot in black and white on the Coney Island Boardwalk that ends in Dumbo.

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THE POOR MAN’S FOLLIES by Micropunta: a docu-film shot in Coney Island during summer season 2008. a 48 minutes version was shown on italian tv Qoob -MTv- the 28th and 29th november.” There are six parts here that can be accessed from the menu on the left. We had some problems last night with download […]

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[Photo courtesy of Captain Nemo] Well, at this point, there probably is very little property in Coney Island that isn’t for sale or hasn’t been sold at least once in anticipation of rezoning. The Coney Arcade in a photo above shot by Captain Nemo is on the market for $6.5 million through Massey Knakal. It’s […]

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Frankly, we liked our rides on it better in summer, but there is something evocative and moving about the wheel just turning. Captain Nemo who shot the vid swears there was no one in the park operating the wheel and that the cross that is placed atop it every holiday season is already there.

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The sad premature destruction of Astroland continues. These photos were captured yesterday by Captain Nemo and posted on the Coney Island Message Board. He calls the photo above “Stairway to Nowhere.” It’s not even so much that Astroland is going, it’s that there’s no need for it to go right now that makes the blood […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack] This is the big parcel of land owned by developer Joe Sitt along Stillwell Avenue where rides were demolished two winters ago. People are now dumping trash there. While we don’t blame the developer for dumping the trash, we do wonder about how the property is secured and […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Ah, the beach in Coney Island. This is a new pic shot from the fishing pier by devoted GL Flickr Pool contributor and talented photographer Rubys Host.

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To us, these are very sad and poignant photos and somehow don’t make a lot of sense vis a vis all the conversation about serious negotiations going on between the city and developer Joe Sitt about buying his land and how the city would be dedicated to giving Astroland another year. Unless the plan is […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack] GL contributor Deborah Matlack took through Coney Island in Saturday’s insane cold and found evidence that Astroland is, indeed, being taken apart. There is also a great deal of evidence of this on the Coney Island Message Board. In case anyone wonders what that machine in the foreground […]

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A short vid of the Thunderbolt in Coney Island, which was demolished on Nov. 17, 2000 at the age of 75. Pics and music. Worth a viewing.

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[Photo courtesy NY Public Library] Oh, Coney Island, which has been through so many changes and incarnations. Here’s a view of Surf Avenue circa 1917.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] We remember summer in Coney.

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