It’s been a calamitous week off-Broadway. In the New Group production of Russian Transport, a loud, inconsequential play full of cussing and yelling at the Acorn Theater on West 42nd Street, a family of mewling, whining Russian immigrants in a cluttered two-story house in Coney Island are struggling to keep their car service business going. Read More
It may not have loops or corkscrews or whirligigs, you're feet don't hang and there's no pneumatic launch. Like a true New Yorker, the Cyclone never needed any gimmicks to be world's greatest roller coaster (a title it's held indisputably for the past 85 years). A good deal of the coaster's excitement is owing to the rough ride it gives, like an out-of-control subway train. It turns out a little grit and neglect can be good for you.
But just as Central Amusements International has been sanitizing the boardwalk, the city-sanctioned Coney Island operator has committed perhaps its greatest indignity yet. Sure, Ruby's is a timeless Coney tradition, but you do not mess with the Cyclone. Read More
You can take the freaks out of Coney Island… actually, you can’t. Read More
The redevelopment of Coney Island relentlessly marches on, a carney hopped up on Disney dreams. Today, the city began work on Steeplechase Plaza, the 2.2-acre open space at the base of the iconic Parachute Jump and one of the city's signature commitments along the Boardwalk. The park will be located on the site of the former Steeplechase Amusement Park, demolished by Fred Trump in 1966, after he failed in a rezoning bid for residential uses.
To a generation of New Yorkers, Coney Island has represented an eerie ghetto just as much as an amusement park. Weekend trains en route to the fabled amusement park are just as likely to contain hipsters eager to make use of their Diana cameras, as groups of families. Read More
Even as Mother Nature threw hurricanes and earthquakes at the city this summer, dampening spirits on Governors Island, it did not stop revelers from flocking to the new Coney Island, setting attendance records for the second year in a row. Read More
While Italian amusement conglomerate Zamperla might not have egg on its face today, it very well might be filthy with zeppole.
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Just under a year ago, plans to replace the beloved Coney Island boardwalk with concrete were reveled. Sure, it would solve the problems of splinters and loose planks, but it's a boardwalk for godsakes, operative word being board. Locals tried to come up with alternatives, like a concrete median that would still have wood on one or both sides, but the Parks Department refused, and so the boardwalk will be paved, The Brooklyn Paper reports. Read More
Coney Island's reputation for iconic shtick as big business just received a highbrow boost, as Coney Island Brewing Company celebrated the beginning of their second year of business and the operation of a fully-licensed in-house brewing system, with the cutting of the world's smallest brewery opening ribbon (a piece of Red Vine licorice, naturally). The event had the air Read More
Will this be the last, real summer in Coney Island, or the dawning of a new day that will see the storied Sodom by the Sea returned to its former glory? Read More
After decades of destitution, the new Coney Island is finally taking shape--and as usual, just as many people hate it as love it. New rides, new condos, new aquarium and now a new boardwalk, if it can be called that.
This fight first surfaced in the fall, when the Parks Department proposed Read More
Another thriller is coming to Coney Island, and there's no admission--unless you want to live there, of course.
Over the past few years, everyone's attention was focused on the sideshow that was
Rezoned in 2005 for a different developer, the site would have held two buildings of seven stories with 300 apartments. Now Mr. Catsimatidis' Red Apple Read More
Last summer saw an April opening with the first coasters Coney has seen in eight decades.
"We are proud of the historic success of Luna Park and look forward to further contributing to a resurgent Coney Island with Scream Zone," Valerio Ferrari, president of Zamperla subsidiary Central Amusement International, said in a statement. "With brand new Read More
The freaks, rogues and Ruby's of the Coney Island boardwalk will not be driven into the sea without a fight!
Over the weekend, the eight boardwalk businesses hired both a legal and PR team to make their case in court and the community, following a November notice that their long-standing leases would not be Read More
Back when plans for revitalizing Coney Island were just taking shape in 2006, the New York Aquarium held more. The renderings that emerged a year later were for a garish amusement, the sort of design a second grader might come up with after a visit to the boardwalk.
