Coney Island

Here’s a photo looking south over the Cropsey Avenue Bridge in 1936. The bridge was constructed in 1931.  A bascule bridge, it can lift in the center to allow boats to…

In August 2013, a modest Coney Island landmark bit the dust. The iron pedestrian bridge that had connected the West 8th Street elevated train station to the Coney Island Aquarium…

The road now known as Coney Island Avenue has been in existence since the early 1820s, when a  north-south road was laid out in eastern Gravesend running south to the…

From the New York Public Library Archives comes this photo of Triton Avenue in Coney Island. The avenue was wiped out in the late 1960s, but it inadvertently led to…

A ride at the new Luna Park in Coney Island features Coney Island scenes from days of old, including Charles Feltman’s Surf Avenue restaurant. Feltman, the purported inventor of the…

After a bracing walk in the “new” Coney Island boardwalk area in March 2013, my fears that the Brooklyn Riviera would be starbucked, mcdonaldsed and condo’d into a comatose state…

I didn’t get to the annual Coney Island ichthyic extravaganza, the Mermaid Parade, on June 23, 2012, but my Macy’s pal, Tim Skoldberg, did and got several choice photos of…

Side window, Child’s Restaurant, Boardwalk and West 21st, Coney. Every time I pass this building, I notice more viscous, slimy water creatures in terra cotta, many of which were on…

So, how do you feel about the new fake boardwalks at Coney Island?

On February 21st, 2012 I was laid off from a job I fought hard to obtain, and fought hard to keep. The following day I went where many Brooklynites over…

Most Animal Cannibal signs (a designation created by me: the art must feature an animal chowing down or preparing to eat meat from its own species) involve pigs; however, the…

It had been assumed that Paul’s Daughter (formerly Gregory and Paul’s) the non-chain dispenser of seaside goodies on the Coney Island boardwalk, would be closing to make way for a…