I head for Coney Island at least once per winter. I like to roam around in the cold wind and hear it whistling in that Astroland tower, the one that…
Coney Island
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING: CONEY ISLAND TO MIDWOOD At East 14th Street, the BMT Brighton Line bridges over the Belt Parkway and in an unusual arrangement, a pedestrian walkway…
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I have not allowed the debilitating heat and humidity of one of the hottest New York summers in years [2010] in this age of accursed global warming to keep me…
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Having rambled through New Brighton in Staten Island a week previously, it’s time now to turn Forgotten attention to New York’s other “Brighton” named for the famed British Channel-side resort,…
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I suspect Coney Island will weather its current difficulties. It always seems to. Recent developments, however, have put several Coney Island aficionados in deep despair. To recap, quite sketchily, developer Joseph…
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Coney Island Avenue is among Brooklyn’s lengthiest routes, extending from Ocean Parkway and Parkside Avenue where Prospect Park meets the Parade Grounds and runs generally straight south all the way…
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Acting on a report from a ForgottenFan that the two remaining Ocean Parkway milestones (seen on this page) at Avenue P and Neptune Avenue had been removed, on Christmas Eve…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 2 Leaving behind the Yellow Submarine for now, Marie, Duke and Mike pressed on east and followed Coney Island Creek to its end at Shell Road…. …
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Ship graveyard of Coney Island Creek: for years I had believed that the Yellow Submarine was still there in the creek, but I was looking in…
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For years I thought it was just a rumor, or if it did exist, it was at the bottom of Davey Jones’s Locker. But some intrepid Forgotten Fans have found…
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THE DEATH— ie., the Starbucks® and Disney®zation — of Coney Island as we know it is imminent, if you believe all the glowing press releases we’ve seen in the papers…
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IT’S ALWAYS FUN when it’s time to do a lamppost page in Forgotten NY, because these vaguely anthropomorphic untility poles are what got me started with this Forgotten NY stuff…