Coney Island is Long Island's peninsula, beach, and entertainment/entertainment settlement neighborhood on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the Brooklyn district of New York City. This site used to be an outer barrier island but became partially connected to the entire Long Island by land. The settlement section of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in the west, with Sea Gate to the west, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to the east, Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north.
Coney Island is known as a site of amusement parks and seaside resorts. Objects reached historic peaks during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and subsequent years were ignored. In 2001 the area saw the opening of the MCU Park stadium that has been home to the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team, as well as the professional football club of the New York Cosmos. In addition, Coney Island opened a new amusement park among several nearby places.
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Geography
Coney Island is the western part of the Long Island barrier island (referred to as the outer barrier island), and about 4 miles (6.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide between Sheepshead Bay to the east and Lower New York Bay to the west. At its peak is 7 feet (2.1 m) above sea level. It was once an island separated from the main part of Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, a partial tidal mud, but most of the river was filled as part of the 1920s and 30s of land and highway construction, turning the island into a peninsula..
The Coney Island Perimeter features an artificial structure designed to maintain its current shape. The beaches today are not a natural feature with sand filling cut by the dock at Breezy Point, Queens. Sand has been diverted on beaches through coastal food since 1922-1923, the first project in the US, and held in place by about two dozen groynes. Sheepshead Bay on the east side, for the most part, is enclosed in a partition.
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Name
Indigenous natives of the Native American, Lenape, call this area Narrioch . This name has been associated with the meaning of " land without shadow or" always in the light "which illustrates how the south-facing beach is always in the sun. The second meaning associated with Narrioch is " point " or " ground angle ".
The first documented European name for this island is the Dutch name Conyne Eylandt, or Konijn Eiland using the modern Dutch spelling, which means Rabbit Island . The name was cornered to Coney Island after the British took over the colony in 1664, coney became the corresponding English word.
Alternative theories of the name are named after the Indian tribe, Konoh, who allegedly once inhabited him; that Conyn was the name of the family of the Dutch settlers living there; or that "Conyne" was a deviation from the name of Henry Hudson's second couple to Halve Maen, John Colman, who was murdered by the natives on a 1609 expedition and buried in a place they named Colman's Point, possibly coinciding with Coney Island.
History
Initial history
The Dutch established the Nieuw Amsterdam colony on Coney Island today at the beginning of the 17th century. Native Americans in the area shrank as Dutch settlements grew and the entire southwestern part of what became Brooklyn was purchased from an Native American elder in 1645 for a rifle, blanket, and kettle.
At the time of European settlement the land that forms Coney Island is currently split across several separate islands which, over the years, have changed shape due to the constant redeposit of sand due to tidal and hurricane forces, as well as the re-establishment of the island by the locals.
The westernmost island is Coney Island, a 1.25 mile sand dune with a separate island at its western end extending into Lower New York Bay. In a journal 1679-80 by Jasper Danckaerts and Peter Sluyter recorded "The Island of Coninen" is entirely separate from the mainland and that:
"Nobody lives on it, but it is used in the winter to raise cattle, horses, cattle, pigs and others, which can earn enough to eat all winter, and to protect themselves from the cold in the bush. so cold as Long Island or Mahatan, or else, like some other islands on the coast, as a result of them having more sea breeze, and from the saltness of the oceans crashing herds, rocks and corals, with which the beach is struck. "
East Coney was originally a peninsula called Coney Hook but in 1750 a canal (called "Jamaica Ditch") was dug through the salt-marsh Coney Hook from the Brown River to the east to the tributary of Hubbard. This connection to the water channel behind the island allows shipping traffic to travel from Jamaica Bay to New York Harbor without having to venture into the sea. The canal turned Coney Hook into a half-mile long island called Pine Island, because of the forest above it.
East of Pine is the largest part of the island called Gysbert's or Guisbert's Island (also called Johnson Island), which contains much of the fertile land and extends eastwards through Brighton Beach and today's Manhattan Beach.
Each island is separated by inlets that can only be crossed during low tide. In the late 1700s an ongoing sand shift along the barrier islands had closed the niches to the point where the occupants began to fill it, eventually joining all the islands to Coney Island now. The development of the island was slow during the Dutch colonial period until the early 1800s due to land disputes and the Revolutionary War and the War of Intervention in 1812. In the early 1800s there were only a handful of farms scattered throughout the island.
Development
The development on Coney Island is always controversial. When the first building was built around the 1830s, there were protests to prevent development on the island and preserve it as a natural park. Beginning in the early 1900s, New York City made an effort to condemn all the buildings and piers built on the south of Surf Avenue. It was an attempt to reclaim the beach which at that time was almost completely built with bath houses, bar shells, entertainment, and other structures. The local entertainment community is against the city. Finally settlements are reached where the coast does not start up to 1,000 feet (300 m) south of Surf Avenue, the area marked with city-owned sidewalks, while the city will demolish buildings built on public roads, to reclaim beach access.
Era Hotel
Coney Island began to become a resort area after 1829 when Gravesend and Coney Island Road and Bridge Company built the first bridge on Coney Island Creek, connected the island with the mainland, and built Shell Road across the island to the coast. In the same year they also built the first hotel on the island called Coney Island House, near the current Sea Gate. Due to the proximity of Coney Island to Manhattan and other areas, and its simultaneous relative distance from Brooklyn city to provide the illusion of a decent vacation, it began attracting tourists in the 1830s and 1840s, assisted by railroads and steamship services that reduced the passage of time from previous trips for half a day to two hours. Most tourists are wealthy and go by train. Inventor Samuel Colt built an observation tower on the peninsula in 1845, but he soon left the project. In 1847, the middle class began to go to Coney Island on the introduction of the ferry to Norton's Point - named after the owner of the hotel Michael Norton - on the western part of the peninsula. The gang activity started too, with one writer in the 1870s noting that going to Coney Island could result in losing money and even life.
In 1868, William A. Engeman built a resort in the area. The resort was named "Brighton Beach" in 1878 by Henry C. Murphy and a group of businessmen, who chose to refer to it as a reference to the English resort town of Brighton. With the help of Gravesend surveyor, William Stillwell, Engeman earned 39 lots for $ 20,000, "low price". Hotel 460 times 210 feet (140 times 64 m) of this, with rooms for 5,000 people every night and food for 20,000 people every day, close to western Coney Island, so most of the upper middle class goes to this hotel. 400-foot (120 m), two-storey Brighton Beach Pavilion is also built nearby. The "Brighton Hotel" is located on the beach at what is now the foot of Coney Island Avenue, and accessed by Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway (now BMT Brighton Line), which opened on 2 July 1878.
Simultaneously, wealthy banker August Corbin developed adjacent Manhattan Beach after being attracted to the area during a trip to the coast to heal his sick son. Corbin, who works on Wall Street and has many railroad investments, built New York and Manhattan Beach Railway for two of his luxury beachfront hotels. These hotels are used by wealthy upper class, who will not go to Brighton Beach due to its proximity to Coney Island. The J. Pickering Putnam-designed, 150-room Manhattan Beach Hotel, with restaurants, ballrooms, and shops, was open for business by 1877 at ceremonies led by Ulysses S. Grant. In 1880, the same inexperienced Oriental Hotel, which hosted a wealthy family that lived for a long time, was opened.
Andrew R. Culver, president of Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad (IND Culver Line at the moment) have built a steam train to West Brighton, Culver Line, before Corbin and Engeman build their railroad tracks. For 35 cents, people can ride to Prospect Park & ​​â € <â € < Coney Island Railroad to Surf Avenue terminal. Across the street from the terminal, the 300-foot (91 m) Iron Tower, purchased from the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, provides customers with a wide view of the beach. The nearest "Camera Obscura" also uses the same mirror and lens to provide a panoramic view of the area. Coney Island became a major resort destination after the Civil War as a railroad and Coney Island & amp; The Brooklyn Railroad tram line reached the area in the 1860s, and the Iron steamboat company in 1881.
The 150-suite Cable Hotel was built nearby in 1875. Next to it, on an area of ​​12 hectares (4.9 acres) hired by James Voorhies, the maitre d 'Paul Bauer built the largest hotel on the western peninsula, which opened in 1876 At the turn of the century, Victorian hotels, private baths and vaudeville theaters are a common sight on Coney Island.
From the 1870s through the first decade of the 1900s, these three resort areas - Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach and West Brighton - competed with each other for customers, with West Brighton gradually becoming the most popular destination in the early 1900s.
Theme park era
Between around 1880 and World War II, Coney Island is the largest entertainment area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. At its peak, there are three main competing amusement parks, Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase Park, as well as many independent entertainment. The area is also a center for new tech events, with electric lights, roller coasters, and baby incubators among innovations at Coney Island in the 1900s. This continued until the end of World War II, with world-style structures such as the Parachute Jump and Wonder Wheel.
Charles I. D. Looff, a Danish wood craftsman, built the first carousel and entertainment rides at Coney Island in 1876. He was installed in the Vandeveer Bath House complex on West 6th Street and Surf Avenue. The complex was later called Balmer's Pavilion. The carousel consists of horses and animals carved by hand that stand parallel. Two musicians, a drummer, and a flute player provide music. A metal ring hung on a pole outside the vehicle, feeding tiny rings of iron for the riders to pick up. A tent protects the riders from the weather. It's five cents.
From 1885 to 1896, Elephantine Colossus, a seven-story building (including brothel) in elephant form, was the first sight to greet immigrants arriving in New York who would see it before they saw the Statue of Liberty. The Coney Island's "Funny Face" logo, which still exists, dates back 100 years to George C. Tilyou's early George Stefflechase Park days.
When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company energized the steam railway line and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge in the early 20th century, Coney Island changed rapidly from a resort to an accessible location for day travelers trying to escape the summer heat in New York City tenements. In 1915, the Coastline of the Sea was upgraded to subway lines, followed by previous ex-roads, and the opening of the New West End Terminal in 1919 ushered in the busiest era of Coney Island.
Since the 1920s, all properties on the north boardwalk and south of Surf Avenue have been categorized for entertainment and recreation only, with some of the great properties in North Surf also categorized for entertainment only.
No more islands
Through the turn of the 20th century, Coney Island is still an island, separated from the main part of Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek along 3 miles. There were plans for decades in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to dredge and straighten rivers as ship canals, but they were abandoned. In 1924 the local landowners had filled some of the tributaries, and the main part of the river was further filled to allow the construction of the Belt Parkway in the 1930s. More charging was added in 1962 with the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The western and eastern end of the island becomes a peninsula.
era of Robert Moses
In 1944, Luna Park was damaged by fire, and sold to a company announcing that they would destroy what was left of Luna Park and build an apartment. Robert Moses owns land that is broadcast again for residential use on condition that the apartment complex includes low-income housing.
After World War II, the contractions began to be serious from a series of pressures. Air conditioning at the cinema and then at home, along with the emergence of the car, which provides access to the less crowded and more interesting State Park park, especially Jones Beach, reduces the appeal of Coney's beach. Luna Park closed in 1946 after a series of fires and 1950s street gang problems spilled over to Coney Island. The presence of threatening young people does not deter the visitors who go to the beach but are discouraged by the rides and concessions, the staple food of Coney Island's economy. The local economy was particularly damaged by the closure of Steeplechase Park in 1964.
In 1949, Moses moved the boardwalk back from the beach a few yards, demolishing many buildings, including the townhouse house. He will then destroy several blocks of entertainment to clear the grounds for the New York Aquarium and Abe Stark Rink. Critics complain that Moses took three times more land than any required structure, encircling each with a useless empty land into the city. Four years later, Moses owns a whole peninsula that is republished for housing use only and announces plans to destroy entertainment to make room for public housing. After many public complaints, the Board of Estimates returned the area between West 22nd Street and The Cyclone just as entertainment and threw in a 100 foot (30 m) property north of Surf Avenue between these streets. Since then it has been protected for entertainment only use, which has caused many public land battles.
Fred Trump Era
In 1964, the last major garden remaining in Coney Park, Steeplechase Park, was closed. The rides were auctioned, and the property was sold to developer Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father. Trump, convinced that the entertainment area will die once the big gardens are gone, wanting to build a luxury apartment on the Steeplechase family's old property. He spent ten years fighting in court to get a re-aired property. At one point, Trump organized a funeral for amusement parks on Coney Island. Trump invited the press to the cemetery where bikini-clad girls first shared hot dogs, then distributed the stones Fred asked to throw through stained glass windows. Then, announcing the amusement park was dead, he made a dilibas pavilion. After a decade of battle in court, Trump ran out of all legal options and the property was still categorized for entertainment only. He eventually leased the property to Norman Kaufman, who runs a small collection of night market entertainment on the corner of the site, calling his theme park "Steeplechase Park".
Between the disappearance of the Luna Park and the original Steeplechase Park, as well as the urban renewal plans taking place in the surrounding neighborhood where middle class houses were replaced with housing projects, fewer people visited Coney Island. With a declining presence, many entertainment owners leave their property. In the late 1970s, the city came up with a plan to revitalize Coney Island by bringing gambling casinos, as has been done in Atlantic City. The city plan backfires when the prospect of selling the property to the rich casino owner creates an explosion of land where property is purchased and the rides are cleaned up in preparation for resale to the developer. Gambling was never legalized for Coney, and the area ended with a vacant lot.
In the 1970s, the area was being disputed. The town is considering to destroy the Cyclone for the sake of an extension of the adjacent New York Aquarium. In 1979, the town purchased Steeplechase Park from Fred Trump and began expelling Norman Kaufman's entertainment. By this time, Kaufman has expanded his park and has plans to finally rebuild the historic Steeplechase Park. He even bought back the original Steeplechase horse with plans to set it up in the next season. But the city decided not to want to wait decades for the rebuilt Steeplechase park and believes it could attract developers to build amusement parks of great combination and casinos on site. The property remains vacant for five years.
Bullard Transactions and Thunderbolt disassembly
In the mid-1980s, businessman Horace Bullard approached the city to allow him to rebuild Steeplechase Park. He already bought several acres of property to the east of the Steeplechase Park site, including the property with a large coil called Thunderbolt and a property to the west of the Abe Stark arena. The plan calls for a combination of properties and Steeplechase properties and unused properties on the Abe Stark site as a multimillion dollar themed park based on the original. The city agreed, and that and the state legislature approved the project in 1986. However, some bureaucrats held the project for two more years while the NYC Planning Commission prepared an environmental impact report. In 1987, state senator Thomas Bartosiewics attempted to block Bullard from building on the Steeplechase site. Bartosiewics is part of a group called The Brooklyn Sports Foundation that has promised other playground developers, Sportsplex, the right to build on the site. Construction was held for four years as Bullard and Sportsplex fought on the scene.
In 1994, after Rudy Giuliani served as Mayor of New York, he abolished the Bullard deal by building a baseball stadium at the location allocated to Steeplechase Park. Giuliani stated that he wanted to build Sportsplex, provided it included a stadium for a small league team owned by Mets; However, when Giuliani ordered the stadium to be built first, Sportsplex accused the city of planning to build a parking lot on the property allocated for the development of Sportsplex. Giuliani has publicly denied this and promised Sportsplex could begin construction when the stadium is over. By doing this, Giuliani wanted to improve sports facilities in the area, as well as find a professional baseball team in Brooklyn (who had not hosted the team since 1957, when Brooklyn Dodgers - now Dodgers Los Angeles - moved to Los Angeles).
As soon as the stadium was over, Giuliani canceled the Sportsplex deal and built the parking lot, angering many people in the community. Mets decided the minor league team would be called Brooklyn Cyclones and sold the naming rights to the stadium to Keyspan Energy. Executives from Keyspan complained that the stadium's line of sight from the rest of Coney Island's entertainment area was blocked by the abandoned Thunderbolt coalition and deemed not to go through the deal. Bullard, now no longer rebuilding Steeplechase Park, wants to restore Thunderbolt as part of a very small amusement park. The next month in "early-morning attacks" on the site, Giuliani, who declared that the Thunderbolt would collapse, had destroyed the coaster; However, the complete destruction of the structurally unstable coaster should take weeks. There was no connection between the Mets organization and the proven demolition, but Giuliani was later accused of undermining him at Mets' request.
Thor Equity Ownership
Initial interest
In 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was interested in reviving Coney Island as a possible site for New York City's bid from the Summer Olympics 2012. The plan was developed by Astella Development Corporation. When the city lost its bid for the Olympics, the revitalization plan was forwarded to Coney Island Development Corporation (CIDC), which emerged with plans to restore the resort. Many entertainment owners worry because one of the goals of the report to develop the area as a goal throughout the year, they can be forced out because their business is only seasonal and does not meet the CIDC goals throughout the year. CIDC also suggested that property north of Surf Avenue and western Abe Stark should be re-broadcasted for other uses including housing to lure developers to the area. Shortly before the CIDC plan was released publicly, a development company, Thor Equities, purchased all of Bullard's 168,000 square feet ($ 15,600 m 2 ) western property, valued at $ 13 million. In less than a year, Thor sold the property to Taconic Investment Partners for more than $ 90 million. Taconic now has 100 acres (40 ha), which is planned to build 2,000 units of apartments.
Thor then began to use most of his $ 77 million profit to buy property above the market line of Stillwell Avenue and offered to buy every piece of property within a traditional entertainment area. Quickly, rumors began that Thor was interested in building a shopping center in the heart of the entertainment district. In September 2005, Thor founder Joe Sitt announced his new plan, a Bellagio-style hotel resort surrounded by rides and entertainment. Sitt released a rendering of a hotel that will take the entire entertainment area of ​​the Aquarium out of Keyspan Park.
Sales
The owner of Astroland, Carol Hill Albert, whose husband's family has owned the park since 1962, sold the site to developers Thor Equities in November 2006 for an undisclosed amount.
In January 2007, Thor released rendering for a new amusement park to be built on the Astroland site called Coney Island Park.
Thor proposed the renovation and expansion of the $ 1.5 billion Coney Island entertainment area to include the city's first indoor hotel, shopping, film, indoor water park, and newest roller coaster since the Typhoon. The Municipal Art Society launched the ImagineConey initiative, early in 2007, when discussions about a highly preferred resettlement plan for housing and hotels began to circulate from the Town Planning Department. MAS held several public workshops, calls for ideas, and charrettes to garner attention to this issue.
Astroland, which has served as the premier amusement park since 1962, closed in 2008 and was replaced by the new incarnation of Dreamland in 2009 and Luna Park in 2010.
Town Planning certifies a January 2009 transfer plan to a negative response from all entertainment supporters and Coney Island fans. In 2012 the plan works through the ULURP process. Thor Equities said it hopes to complete the project in 2011. Thor Equities plans to destroy most of the iconic 20th century buildings along Surf Avenue. In their place, Sitt plans to build a cheap, one floor, and recently released rendering clearly showing buildings like Burger King and Taco Bell. The aquarium is also planning renovations. In June 2009, the city planning commission unanimously approved the construction of 4,500 housing units and 900 affordable units and vowed to "conserve, in leisure, an open entertainment rides that everyone knows and love," while the protesters argue that "20 percent is affordable component -housing is very unreasonable. "
2010s
In addition to Luna Park, the park and the remaining attractions include Deno Wonder Wheel Theme Park, 12th Street Amusements, and Kiddie Park, while Eldorado Arcade has indoor car rides. Zippers and Spiders at 12th Street were closed permanently on September 4, 2007, and the demolition began after the owner lost the lease. They have been reassembled at amusement parks in Honduras.
On April 20, 2011, the first new roller coaster to be built on Coney Island in eighty years opened as part of efforts to reverse the decline in the entertainment area.
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused major damage to Coney Island, Aquarium, and business parks. However, Nathan reports that Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest will be held the following summer, as usual. Luna Park at Coney Island reopens on March 24, 2013. Aquarium rebuilding begins in early 2013 and is expected to be completed by 2018.
Theme park and attractions
Currently, Coney Island has two theme parks - Luna Park and Deno Wonder Wheel Amusement Park - as well as some rides that are not included in any of the theme parks. Coney Island also has several other tourist attractions and hosts famous events as well. The Coney Island entertainment area is one of the few in the United States that is not owned by one entity.
Rides
The amusement park currently contains a variety of rides, games like skeeball and ball tossing, and spectacle, including skill game shooting, throwing and throwing. Other venues and entertainment at Coney Island are owned and managed by several different companies and operate independently of each other. It is impossible to buy season tickets to tourist attractions in the area.
Three rides on Coney Island are protected as New York City landmarks and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The three rides are:
- Wonder Wheel - built in 1918 and opened in 1920, this steel Ferris wheel features both stationary and rocking cars that glide along the track. It holds 144 riders, stands 150Ã, ft (46 m) tall, and weighs over 200 tons. At night, the Wonder Wheel steel frame is underlined and illuminated by a fluorescent tube. It is located in Deno Wonder Wheel Amusement Park. Roller coaster
- The Cyclone - built in 1927, it is one of the oldest US timepieces still operating. Popular among roller coaster fans, Cyclone covers a 60 degree drop (26 m), 60 degrees. Owned by New York City, and operated by Astroland, under a franchise agreement. It is now located in and operated by Luna Park.
- Parachute Jump - originally built as Life Savers Parachute Jump at the 1939 New York World Fair, this is the first vehicle of its kind. The visitors raised 262 ft (80 m) in the air before being allowed to fall using a cable parachute. Although the trip has been closed since 1964, it remains a Coney Island landmark and is sometimes referred to as the Brooklyn Eiffel Tower. Between 2002 and 2004, it was completely dismantled, cleaned, painted, and restored, but kept inactive. After the official lighting ceremony in July 2006, Parachute Jump is scheduled to be switched throughout the year using different colored motifs to represent the season. However, this idea was removed when New York City began preserving electricity in the summer months, and it has not been turned on regularly ever since.
Other well known places that currently operate include:
- Thunderbolt - In March 2014, construction began on the new coaster Thunderbolt on Coney Island. The Thunderbolt is produced by Zamperla at a cost of US $ 10 million and has a 90 degree vertical drop, followed by a 100-foot loop and zero gravity roll, along with dives, hills and corkscrew, all in two minutes. This vehicle has a track of 2,000 feet (610 m), a height of 125 feet (38 m), and a top speed of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h). Thunderbolt has three inversions including vertical loop, bottle opener, and Immelmann loop. The Thunderbolt located near Surf Avenue and West 15th Street on Coney Island will be built with 2,233 feet of tracks that will stretch to a height of 115 meters and be built next to the B & B Carousell, an antique merry-go-round that underwent extensive restoration and reopened last summer. The opening of Thunderbolt , is expected to be made on the Day of 2014, pushed back to June 6, 2014, and in early June, it's postponed once again for later in the summer of 2014. Finally, on June 14, Thunderbolt opened.
- B & amp; B Carousell sic (as spelled by framed builder William F. Mangels) Ã, - this is Coney Island's last traditional carousel, near the old entrance to Luna Park. Carousel is faster than usual, with traditional fairground organs operated rolls. When long-term operators die unexpectedly, the carousel is auctioned, with worries that it will leave Coney Island or be broken up for sale to collectors. However, New York City buys B & B Carousell a few days before the auction; it was dismantled and rebuilt in Steeplechase Plaza, a 2.2 acre public plaza. All the other carrots on Coney Island are kiddie garden styles. For restoration, Theresa Rollison, a painter with Carousel and Carving, custom-mixed over 80 colors to replicate the original color. He then applied pink salmon, yellow lemon, metallic silver and maroon, using a natural brush made of civet, squirrel, and sea urchins. "I would not choose to unite some colors, but overall it works," he said. The last part of the restoration is a new horse tail for 50 horses, and with it New York City Economic Development Corp pays $ 1.7 million for restoration. For decades, Coney Island is the headquarters of the swivel comedy center. In the late 1800s, carousel makers set up shop there, and by the turn of the century, two dozen merry-go-rounds operated on the island. There are even evolved schools of Coney Island carousel design, different from the Philadelphia style and the quieter County Fair. The Coney Island style is characterized by a flamboyant, aggressive, stiff-looking horse neck, widened nostrils, and drooping tongue. B & amp; B was built on Coney Island, with a frame dating from 1906, and at some point, operated in New Jersey, though it is unclear as to how long. In the early 1920s he received a new set of horses carved by Charles Carmel, one of Coney Island's famous carousel makers. It had returned to Brooklyn in 1935.
- Bumper carsÃ, - there are three separate bumper car rides on Coney Island, located on 12th street, Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, and Eldorado's Arcade on Surf Avenue.
- Ghost house - two traditional dark-dwelling homes operating on Coney Island, Spook-a-Rama in Deno's and Ghost Hole on 12th street.
Former rides include:
- Thunderbolt - This roller coaster across the street from Steeplechase Park was built in 1925 and closed in 1983. It was torn down by the city "to protect public safety" in 2000 during the construction of the Park Nearest Keyspan. In the movie Woody Allen Annie Hall , Allen's character family lives in a structure like a small house under the back of a roller coaster line.
- Tornado - This roller coaster was built in 1926. It underwent a series of small fires that made its structure unstable, and torn down in 1977.
- Steeplechase Park Horse Race - created by Coney Island residents, George C. Tilyou in 1897, this trip consisted of people riding wooden horses around parks on steel paths.
Beach
The sand beach on the western tip of Coney Island at Sea Gate is private, accessible only by residents. There is a large public sand beach starting at Sea Gate on West 37th Street, through Coney Island and Brighton Beach, to the start of the Manhattan Beach community, about 2.5 mi (4.0 km). The beach is continuous and is presented for the entire length by the spacious Riegelmann Boardwalk. A number of entertainments are directly accessible from the sides of the sidewalk, such as aquariums and various food and arcade shops. There are public beaches along the 400m further in the community of Manhattan Beach.
The public beach is regularly prepared by the city. Since the sand is no longer naturally filled on the beach, the sand is recharged in ordinary sand beach projects using dredged sand. The beach facing south is without a significant obstacle and is in the sun all day. The public beach is open to all without restrictions, and there is no charge to use. The coastal area is divided into "bay", the coastal area depicted by groy stone, which is moderate erosion and sea wave power.
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club consists of a group of people who swim in Coney Island throughout the winter, especially on New Year's Day, when additional participants join them for a swim in the cold waters.
The beach serves as a training ground for Coney Island's Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers (CIBBOWS), a group dedicated to promoting open water pools for individuals of all levels. CIBBOWS hosts several open water swimming competitions each year, such as Grimaldo's Mile and New York Aquarium 5k, as well as regular weekend training.
Other attractions
Nearby, the New York Aquarium, which opened in 1957 at the former Dreamland theme park, is another attraction on Coney Island. In 2001, KeySpan Park opened on the former Steeplechase Park site to host the small league baseball team Brooklyn Cyclones.
In May 2015, Thor Equities launched Coney Art Walls, a public art wall project curated by former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jeffrey Deitch and CEO Thor Joseph Sitt. Located at 3050 Stillwell Avenue, the project features more than 30 world-renowned artists including legends such as Lady Pink, Crash, Daze, Futura and Kenny Scharf, as well as leading artists from the next generation including Shepard Fairey, Maya Hayuk, and How & Nosm. Coney Art Walls back in 2016 with 21 new mural, including some of New York's leading painters and sculptors, in addition to leading artists connected to street culture.
In June 2016, the Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island opened on the sidewalk, hosting several live music performances as well as other events. Construction begins in 2015. Built on the site of Childs Restaurant on Coney Island Boardwalk. This restaurant was originally built in 1923. It was renovated when the amphitheater is being built. The roof of the restaurant reopened in July 2016 and the main restaurant is scheduled to reopen in 2017.
Events
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade takes place on Surf Avenue and boardwalk, and features buoys and action. It has been produced annually by Coney Island USA, a nonprofit art organization founded in 1979, dedicated to preserving the dignity of popular American culture.
Coney Island USA has also sponsored the Coney Island Film Festival every October since 2000, as well as Burlesque At The Beach , and Creepshow in Freakshow (Events themed interactive Halloween). It is also the home of the Coney Island Museum.
The annual Cosme 5K Charity Run/Walk , powered by Coney Island Sports Foundation (CISF ), takes place on the last Sunday of June at the Riegelmann Boardwalk.
In August 2006, Coney Island hosted a major national volleyball tournament sponsored by the Association of Volleyball Professionals. The tournament, usually held on the west coast of the United States, is broadcast live on NBC. The League built a 4,000-seater stadium and twelve outdoor pitches next to the boardwalk for the event. The tournament returned to Coney Island in 2007 and 2008.
In April 2009, Feld Entertainment, the parent company for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & amp; Bailey Circus, announced that "The Biggest Show on Earth" will be performing on Coney Island for the entire summer of 2009, the first time since July 16, 1956 that Ringling Bros. has done. at this location. The tents are located between the boardwalk and Surf Avenue, and the show is called The Coney Island Boom-A-Ring . In 2010, they returned to the same location as The Coney Island Illuscination .
Demographics
In the 2000 census, there were 51,205 people living on Coney Island. Of those, 51.2% were white, 29.3% were black, 18% were Hispanic or Latino, 3.8% were Asian, 0.5% were Native Americans, 0.1% were Pacific Islanders , 7.6% are some other races, and 3.7% describe themselves. as two or more races. 70.5% have a high school diploma or higher, and 20.7% have a bachelor's degree or higher. The average household income in 1999 was $ 21,281.
The neighborhoods on Coney Island, from west to east, are Sea Gate, Coney Island proper, Brighton Beach, and Manhattan Beach. Sea Gate is a private community, one of a handful of neighborhoods in New York City where streets are shared by residents and towns. The inhabitants of Sea Gate pay the city tax and Sea Gate. Sea Gate and Breezy Point Cooperative are the only areas of the city surrounded by fences and gates.
The majority of the Coney Island population is in about thirty towers 18 to 24 floors, mostly various forms of public housing. Among the many tower blocks are filled with empty buildings and burning. Since the 1990s there has been a steady revitalization of the region. Many townhouses are built on vacant lots, popular franchises are opened, and Keyspan Park is built to serve as home to the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team. After being home to many Jews, Coney Island's main population group today is African American, Hispanic, and Russian African immigrants.
Education
Primary, secondary, and high school
Coney Island is served by the New York City Department of Education. Coney Island environments are categorized into PS 90 Edna Cohen School for K-5 PS 329 (K-5), PS 188 Michael E. Berdy (K-5), PS 100 Coney Island School (K-5), Mark Twain 6-8), IS 303 Herbert S. Eisenberg, and PS/IS 288 Shirley Tanyhill School (Pre-K-8) serving Coney Island. In 2006, David Scharfenberg of The New York Times said, "Coney Island's primary school is a lot of mix, with only a few exceeding the overall average of cities on state testing regimens."
No high school is dizonasikan, although Abraham Lincoln high school, academic high school, is on Coney Island. Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies is located on Coney Island. Nearby high schools include:
- John Dewey High School
- Leon M. Goldstein High School for Science
- William E. Grady Vocational School
- High School of Sports Management
- Liberty Secondary School
- Mark Twain Intermediate School for Gifted and Talented
Public library
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) operates the Coney Island Library. Opened in 1911 as an unmanned station deposit. In 1921 moved to the former office of the Coney Island Times and became a full-fledged staff. In 1954, another branch was built. BPL states that the library is referred to as "the first library built on a stage above the Atlantic Ocean."
Transportation
The main Coney Island subway stop is Coney Island - Stillwell Avenue and is served by D , F , N and Q train. The terminal is the largest metro station in North America and one of the largest metro stations in the world, with eight rails serving four platforms at the station. The entire station was rebuilt in 2002-2004.
The bus terminal below the station serves B68 to Prospect Park, B74 to the Coney Island/Sea Gate, B64 to Bay Ridge, and B82 border to Starrett City. B36 runs from the border of the Sea Gate on West 37th Street to Nostrand Avenue on Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The X28 provides express bus service to Manhattan on weekdays.
The three main east-west arteries of the Coney Island community, are, from north to south, Neptune Avenue (which crosses through Brighton Beach before becoming Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay), Mermaid Avenue, and Surf Avenue (which becomes the Ocean Parkway and then runs into north towards Prospect Park). The cross streets in Coney Island neighborhood are appropriately numbered "West" added to their number, walking from West 1st Street to West 37th Street on the border of the Sea Gate (except for Cropsey Avenue, which is West 17th Street south of Neptune Avenue).
The Ocean Parkway bike trail, the oldest bike path in the United States, ends at Coney Island. The Shore Parkway bikeway runs east along Jamaica Bay, and west and north along New York Harbor. Street bike trails are marked on Neptune Avenue and other streets on Coney Island.
Coney Island is expected to be served by the City Ferry Service on an undetermined date.
In popular culture
Coney Island has been featured in many novels, movies, television shows, cartoons and plays.
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External links
- Cities in the Environment - Coney Island Evolution
- The future of Southern Brooklyn, including Coney Island - newyork.thecityatlas.org
- Media related to Coney Island, Brooklyn on Wikimedia Commons
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