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February 4, 2012
Atlantic City Diving Horse Act Creates Controversy
viaIf you watch Boardwalk Empire you are aware that the Atlantic City of yore was filled with some pretty bizarre attractions (exhibits displaying babies in incubators, Paz de la Huerta). Well, now one attraction that originated in the 1920s is set for a return, and is making animal activists ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Coney Island 8 Vow Not to Give Up Against "Goliath"
Tricia Vita/Amusing the Zillion via FlickrSnowdrifts on the third rail have the DNQ trains crawling along toward Stillwell Avenue like they were headed for the last stop on the Trans-Siberian. Polar bears have been seen canvassing the shallows. It's home to white skeletons of roller coaster s ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Ruby's Will Close After 76 Years on the Coney Island Boardwalk
Ruby's Bar & GrillAnother day, another big step for homogenity: Ruby's Bar & Grill, which has sat on the Coney Island boardwalk since 1934, will close in two weeks. Gothamist reports that the bar is being pushed out by Zamperla, the management company responsible for turning Astroland into Lu ... More >>
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November 1, 2010
Everyone Is Leaving Coney Island
Next summer may be a lonely one at Coney Island -- nine of the boardwalk's businesses, including the owners of longtime establishments like Ruby's bar, Coney Island Souvenirs, Gyro Corner, Beer Garden, and Shoot the Freak, have lost their leases and are moving out.
Film
August 4, 2010
On Tour in Mundo Alas: Handicapped Musicians and Empty Uplift
Next summer may be a lonely one at Coney Island -- nine of the boardwalk's businesses, including the owners of longtime establishments like Ruby's bar, Coney Island Souvenirs, Gyro Corner, Beer Garden, and Shoot the Freak, have lost their leases and are moving out.
Blogs
June 1, 2010
Morning Links: International Criticism Mounts Against Israel, Hurricane Season Begins, Quit Facebook Actually "Update Your Status" Day
AP• Israel is holding more than 600 activists from the Gaza convoy, and international criticism of the country is mounting, with the UN condemning the acts that on Monday killed 9 civilians -- many of them Turks, a country that had once been a friend of Israel -- aboard the flotilla that ha ... More >>
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May 29, 2010
Happy Summer: Coney Island's Luna Park Is Open for Business
New Yorkers have a bunch of ways of telling that it's summer. Power grids being overloaded is one way. Everyone you can't stand leaving the five boroughs is another. But the first surefire indicator that it's summer -- beyond sweating in places you forgot you had the ability to sweat in, of c ... More >>
News
May 25, 2010
Coney Island's Grand Past and Grim Future
Requiem for a dreamland
Blogs
March 17, 2010
Astroland Dead, Did Not Fall at Hands of The Warriors
Everyone who claims to have legitimately enjoyed Coney Island's Astroland while nervously worrying for their safety on rides which were eventually going to off someone can now relax, they no longer have to pretend to enjoy it for its kitch New York Value. It's dead. Supposedly.
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Actual Honest-to-God New Rides Coming to Coney in May, New Coasters in 2011
Photo by Neil deMauseIn what's becoming a bit of a Coney Island tradition, City Hall officials shlepped out to Brooklyn in a slushstorm today to make the long-rumored announcement that the Italian firm Zamperla has been tapped to open a new amusement park in Coney to replace the dearly depart ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2008
Protesters Rally Against Union Square 'Privatization'
Photo by Neil deMauseIn what's becoming a bit of a Coney Island tradition, City Hall officials shlepped out to Brooklyn in a slushstorm today to make the long-rumored announcement that the Italian firm Zamperla has been tapped to open a new amusement park in Coney to replace the dearly depart ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2007
Astroland Looking Like History
Photo by Neil deMauseIn what's becoming a bit of a Coney Island tradition, City Hall officials shlepped out to Brooklyn in a slushstorm today to make the long-rumored announcement that the Italian firm Zamperla has been tapped to open a new amusement park in Coney to replace the dearly depart ... More >>
NYC Life
July 3, 2007
Ghost World
You'll need a memory like an elephant to remember Coney Island
NYC Life
April 3, 2007
Coney Island's Last Ride? The Bulldozer!
Behind the scenes, a scary game of chicken between the city and a developer who dreams of high-rise condos that won't amuse you
NYC Life
May 9, 2006
Cheap and Outside
Bars with inexpensive drinks and a backyard
NYC Life
June 21, 2005
Scary Ride at Coney Island
Extreme makeover not amusing to everybody in the amusement district
Film
June 10, 2003
Assassination Tangos
Gangsters No. 1, 2, 3, 4 . . .
Film
March 18, 2003
Back to Nature
The Art of Destruction
NYC Life
May 29, 2001
Bars
Too Hot to Think? Drink.
News
January 30, 2001
Death in Winnipeg
Crazy Horses of the Apocalypse: Inside the Osmonds
NYC Life
August 31, 1999
Coney Island High
Photographs By Regina Monfort
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August 24, 1999
NY Mirror
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December 9, 1997
Twenty-five Reasons To Develop an Edifice Complex
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