Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, United States, North America
Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by land fill. Coney Island is well known as the site of amusement parks and a seaside resort. The attractions reached their peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and years of neglect. In recent years, the area has seen the opening of MCU Park and has become home to the minor league baseball team the Brooklyn Cyclones. The residential neighborhood of the same name is a community of 60,000 people in the western part of the peninsula, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, and Gravesend to the north. Development on Coney Island has long been controversial. When the first structures were built around the 1840s, there was an outcry to prevent any development on the island and preserve it as a natural park. Starting in the early 20th century, the City of New York made efforts to condemn all buildings and piers built south of Surf Avenue, with the local amusement community opposing the city. Eventually a settlement was reached where the beach was declared as not beginning until 1,000 ft (300 m) south of Surf Avenue, the territory marked by a city-owned boardwalk, while the city would demolish any structures that had been built over public streets in order to reclaim beach access. In 1944, Robert Moses actively opposed the tawdry entertainment at Coney Island and discouraged the building of new amusements. By 1949, Moses moved the boardwalk back from the beach several yards, demolishing many structures, including the city's municipal bath house. He would later demolish several blocks of amusements to clear land for both the New York Aquarium, where Dreamland once stood, and the Abe Stark Ice Skating Rink. In 1953, Moses had the entire island rezoned for residential use only, and announced plans to demolish the amusements to make room for low income housing. After public complaints, the Estimate Board reinstated some areas as protected for amusement use only, leading to many public land battles. In 1964, Coney Island's last remaining large theme park, Steeplechase Park, closed and the property was sold to developer Fred Trump. Trump wanted to build luxury apartments on the old Steeplechase property and spent ten years battling in court to get the property rezoned. After a decade of court battles, Trump exhausted his legal options and the property remained zoned for amusements. He eventually leased the property to Norman Kaufman, who ran a small collection of fairground amusements on a corner of the site, calling his amusement park Steeplechase Park.[citation needed] However, between the loss of both Luna Park and the original Steeplechase Park, as well as an urban-renewal plan that took place in the surrounding neighborhood, involving middle class houses being replaced with low income housing projects, fewer visitors came to Coney Island. In the late 1970s the city proposed a plan to revitalize Coney Island by bringing in gambling casinos, as had been done in Atlantic City, but gambling was never legalized for Coney Island, and the area ended up with vacant lots. In 1994 Rudy Giuliani took office as mayor of New York, and supported a plan to build a sporting complex named Sportsplex, provided it include a stadium for a minor league baseball team owned by the New York Mets. Once the stadium was completed Giuliani reneged on the Sportsplex deal, and The Mets decided to call the minor league team the Brooklyn Cyclones and sold the naming rights to the stadium to Keyspan Energy.
⁴ᴷ Walking Tour of Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk, Brooklyn, NYC (Memorial Day Weekend)
Enjoy this NYC walking tour of Brooklyn's Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk during Memorial Day Weekend (official kickoff to summer). Every summer, Coney Island turns into a giant entertainment center for the New York metropolitan area. There are two amusement parks, a beachfront, numerous food stalls, and performances. Major attractions include the Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster, Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs, Luna Park, Deno's Wonder Wheel, B&B Carousell, and the Parachute Jump (defunct).
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0:35 - Entering Coney Island Boardwalk at Stillwell Avenue
3:30 - B&B Carousell
4:40 - Steeplechase Pier (Overlooks the beach and goes out into the ocean)
8:50 - End of Steeplechase Pier
13:30 - Walking East on Coney Island Boardwalk
15:53 - Thunderbolt Roller Coaster closeup!
16:58 - Dizzying amusement park ride
17:51 - 18:20 - Audio muted due to copyrighted music (see for original video)
19:43 - Looking at Deno's Wonder Wheel
20:53 - Entering Luna Park
22:35 - Coney Island Cyclone Roller Coaster
23:55 - Wild River ride closeup
25:08 - Surf Avenue & West 10th Street
28:25 - Stillwell Avenue & Surf Avenue
29:10 - Entering Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs
29:40 - Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs Wall of Fame
30:47 - Coney Island Art Walls
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Coney Island And Astroland Amusement Park An Extensive Tour
Coney Island is a peninsula, formerly an island, in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA, with a beach on the Atlantic Ocean. The neighborhood of the same name is a community of 60,000 people in the western part of the peninsula, with Seagate to its west; Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east; and Gravesend to the north.
The area was a major resort and site of amusement parks that reached its peak in the early 20th century. It declined in popularity after World War II and endured years of neglect. In recent years, the area has seen the opening of MCU Park, home to the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team.
Native American inhabitants, the Lenape, called the island Narrioch[citation needed] (land without shadows), because, as is true of other south shore Long Island beaches, its compass orientation keeps the beach area in sunlight all day.[citation needed] The Dutch name for the island was Conyne Eylandt (Konijnen Eiland in modern Dutch spelling),meaning Rabbit Island. This name is found on the New Netherland map of 1639 by Johannes Vingboon. (New York State and New York City were originally a Dutch colony and settlement, named Nieuw Nederlandt and Nieuw Amsterdam.) As on other Long Island barrier islands, Coney Island had many and diverse rabbits and rabbit hunting prospered until resort development eliminated their habitat.
It is generally accepted by scholars that Coney Island is an English adaptation of the Dutch name, Konijnen Eiland. Coney is also an archaic and dialectal English word for rabbit. Coney came into the English language through Old French (Conil), which derives from the Latin word for rabbit, cuniculus. The English name Conney Isle was used on maps as early as 1690,and by 1733 the modern spelling Coney Island was used.[6] J.F.W. des Barre's chart of New York harbor in the Atlantic Neptune, 1779, and John Eddy map of 1811 both use the modern Coney Island spelling.
Even though the history of Coney Island's name and its Anglicization can be traced through historical maps spanning the 17th century to the present,] and all the names translate to Rabbit Island in modern English, there are still those who contend that the name derives from other sources. Some say that early English settlers named it Coney Island after its cone-like hills. Others claim that an Irish captain named Peter O'Connor had, in the 1700s, named Coney Island after an island (Inishmulclohy) in County Sligo, Ireland. Yet another purported origin is from the name of the Indian tribe (the Konoh tribe) who supposedly once inhabited it. A further claim is that the island is named after Henry Hudson's right-hand-man John Coleman, supposed to have been slain by Indians.
Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. At its height it contained three competing major amusement parks, Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase Park, as well as many independent amusements.
Astroland served as a major amusement park from 1962 to 2008. It was replaced by a new incarnation of Dreamland in 2009 and of Luna Park in 2010. The other parks and attractions are: Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park (a successful family owned park with over 20 rides located directly on the Boardwalk), 12th Street Amusements, and Kiddie Park. Also, the Eldorado arcade has its own indoor bumper car ride. The Zipper and Spider on 12th Street were closed permanently on September 4, 2007 and dismantling begun, after its owner lost his lease. They are to be reassembled at an amusement park in Honduras.
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Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill.
Luna Park was an amusement park at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City from 1903 to 1944. A second Luna Park was opened on the former site of the nearby Astroland amusement park. The second incarnation of Luna Park opened on May 29, 2010.
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Amusement Park
Not exsacly an amusement park, this is just something they do infront my house evry year. Since there's no ,more Coney island amusement park here in New york. This is our minic Coney island until they rebuild our next Coney Island wish is set to open in some 3 or 4 years i think.
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Luna Park, Coney Island at Night, early 1900s
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Nellie Bly Amusement Park Tilt A Whirl Ride In Coney Island Brooklyn New York
Nellie Bly Amusement Park Tilt A Whirl Ride In Coney Island Brooklyn New York
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Nellie Bly
1.056 acres
This Parks property honors Nellie Bly (1867-1922), the pioneering female reporter who went undercover to investigate injustice, corruption, and crime. In 1889, she achieved international fame by circumnavigating the earth in 72 days.
Born Elizabeth Cochrane near Ford City, Pennsylvania, the young woman ventured into journalism in 1885 at Dispatch, a Pittsburgh newspaper. By the late 1880s, she secured a position writing for New York World. There, under the by-line Nellie Bly, she innovated the practice of investigative reporting. Throwing herself into the matters she investigated, this new approach to journalism brought her on an early diving expedition, a hot air balloon journey, an undercover mission in a mental asylum, and a whirlwind trip around the world.
In 1888, Nellie Bly got herself committed to the mental hospital on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), to investigate and report on the conditions at the facility. The next year, she made a frantic trip around the world, with the aim of beating the record set by Jules Vernes fictional character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. Blys steamboat trip churned out worldwide publicity, and made her an American heroine. In 1890, she wrote a book chronicling her 72 day, 6 hour, and 11 minute journey, Around the World in Seventy-two Days.
Nellie Bly had no time for romance until 1895, when she fell in love with and married an attractive millionaire, Robert Seaman. Bly put her career on hold for the handsome industrialist and did not return to journalism until her husband died in 1915. Nellie Bly remained on the staff of the New York Journal until her death in 1922.
Located on the south side of Shore Parkway between 25th Avenue and Bay 41st Street Nellie Bly came under Parks jurisdiction on April 9, 1956. This property was created concurrently with the adjacent, now defunct, Southwest Brooklyn Sanitation Center. The construction required the modification of the lines and grades of the street system in the territory bounded by Bay 38th Streets, Bay 43rd Streets, Shore Parkway, and U.S. Bulkhead Line in Gravesend Bay.
Opened in 1966, Nellie Bly is a family run amusement park. The concessionaire named the fun park for Nellie Bly because of her reputation as an adventurer. The park features more than a dozen kiddie rides, including a miniature roller coaster, ferris wheel, carousel, and train. Although most of its amusements appeal to younger children, Nellie Bly also sports an 18-hole miniature golf course, batting cages, and go-carts.
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The Coney Island Cyclone Off-Ride Luna Park, New York
Off-Ride footage of the World Famous Cyclone Roller Coaster at Luna Park, Coney Island, New York. This is one of the oldest coasters in the world, as it has been operating since 1927. It was officially declared a NYC landmark in 1988, and was placed on the national list of Historic Places in 1991. Several identical replicas have been modeled after this coaster.
Rating: 7/10
Manufacturer Harry C. Baker
Track layout Compact Twister
Height 85 ft
Drop 85 ft
Length 2,650 ft
Speed 60 mph
Duration 1:50
Max vertical angle 59°
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Coney Island State Senator Diane Savino speaking at 5th Annual History Day
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Soarin' Eagle Luna Park, Coney Island
Off-Ride footage of the Soarin' Eagle roller coaster in the scream zone section of Luna Park, Coney Island, New York. This ride used to be located at Elitch Gardens, where it was called 'Flying Coaster.' This was the first ever Zamperla-made flying coaster.
Rating: 6.5/10
Manufacturer Zamperla
Model Flying
Lift system Spiral Lift
Height 50 ft
Drop 17 ft
Max vertical angle 31°
Length 1,282 ft
Speed 25.7 mph
Inversions 2
Duration 1:10
New York 4K Vlog USA 2017 Part 4
Part 4, the final leg of our US trip to New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Coney Island. We stop off at Central Park, The Top of the Rock at the Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Flat Iron Building, The World Trade Centre, Wall Street, Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, Christopher Street and The Stonewall Inn to name but a few places. We ride the Wonder Wheel, the subway and walk the High Line and across the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Fathers Day in Coney Island 2014 # 1 : Te Les Amuser
In a corner of the universe
In a corner of the world
In a corner of the eastern hemisphere
In the united states
In the eastern corner of the united states
In the state of new York
In the city of new York
In the borough of Brooklyn
In a corner of Brooklyn
Is Coney Island