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At Coney Island Sand Castle Contest: Amazing Sculptures And the Occasional Star
For 22 years, the affordable non-profit housing organization Astella Development Corporation has been sponsoring the annual Sand Castle Contest out on Coney Island. Flying a little under the radar--at...
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You Can Build Your Casino, Just Not in Manhattan, Shelly Silver Says, and...
A Javits casino? Don't bet on it. (Inhabitat) After years of opposition, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has decided to roll the dice on Governor Andrew Cuomo's dream of opening a casino in New York...
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Mayor Bloomberg Makes a Splash: Scaled-Back Aquarium Gets City Funding
Wavy gravy. (NY Aquarium) Fun out of the sun. Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a stroll down the boardwalk this afternoon to the New York City Aquarium in Coney Island, where he announced that new city and...
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Hold the Applause: Coney Island Calls for Entertainment Encore on Old...
The Thunderbolt in 1995. Called “the People’s Playground,” Coney Island is perhaps the most popular piece of New York City’s entertainment puzzle, Times Square and the Bowery having been thoroughly...
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Cheeseburgers in Paradise: Stopping for Lunch Inside the Evacuation Zone
Chasing hurricanes is hard work. Luckily, on Cropsey Avenue, just one block south of the Shore Parkway, sits Parkview Diner. It’s one of those 1950s throwbacks, all neon and chrome, that exist across...
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Photos: Stunned by Sandy, Coney Island Cleans Up
Only a few days after Sandy terrorized the Eastern Coast and before droves of generous volunteers began their efforts to rebuild the seaboard, the damage done by the hurricane was visible against the...
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Coney Baloney: The Plot to Turn City’s Iconic Wonderland Into a Chain-Store...
Illo by Ed Johnson Peer under the tent flap of our splendid new civic order, and you’re guaranteed to see a disturbing sight: all the same failed policies of the past, lovingly preserved in...
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Coney Island Is Still Devastated, From the Boardwalk to the Neighborhood Parks
A freak show of another sort. (Getty) We have all had that moment, post-Sandy, where the breadth of the storm's damage has finally sunk in. For New Yorkers for Parks, that moment came on Nov. 9, when...
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Zone A Zoning: Independent Budget Office Critical of Bloomberg’s Two-Faced...
Battered and broken. (Mayor's Office/Flickr) While the Bloomberg administration has largely come in for praise for its Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts, questions remain over whether City Hall made...
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Don’t Be Shellfish! Coney Island Mermaid Parade Raises 35K With Kickstarter...
A colorful Mermaid Parade-goer (Featured in the parade's Kickstarter video) Six months ago, Superstorm Sandy left Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade high and dry. Now, parade participants are hoping...
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Amanda Palmer Saves the Mermaid Parade
Mermaid Paraders. (Flickr) Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade was nearly dead in the water, until Amanda Palmer saved the day. Maybe she’s not so shellfish after all. On May 25th, the cult musician and...
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Coney Island Revives Thunderbolt Coaster, With a Little Help From Fried...
Rendition of the new Thunderbolt. Back in the early days of Coney Island, there wasn't anything amusing about amusement park rides. They were more horrifically scary than anything else: compared to the...
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Coney Island To Become Cool and “Glitzy” With Chains Like Applebee’s, Johnny...
Now all it needs is a TJ Max and a Pinkberry. Coney Island is okay and all—it has the Mermaid Parade and the Cyclone, the boardwalk and the beach—but some "hip" national chains like Applebee's are...
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Coney Island Applebee’s Opens with an Old Fashioned Shark ‘Massacree’
Tank of death! (Facebook) Sad news today from the shark-infested waters of the Coney Island Applebee’s. First, a shark died after colliding with an underwater ferris wheel, and then another shark went...
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The Mermaids Ride Again: Coney Island Bounces Back With Fabulously Fishy Parade
(Photo: Amanda Cohen) Coney Island’s historic boardwalk, for months left ravaged and desolate in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, seemed fully revived last Saturday. Nathan’s fielded long lines for...
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Terrified Woman Claims Beyoncé and Terry Richardson Trapped Her Atop the...
Beyonce and Terry Richardson rode the Spook-A-Rama ride at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park too. (Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park) A celebrity sighting in New York is something most people like to...
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Update: Coney Island Creek Dolphin Dies
Coney Island dolphin. (Fox5) Update: The Coney Island dolphin has died, according to the Riverhead Foundation. Another deceased dolphin was spotted near Point Lookout on Long Island. Coney Island is...
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