On the afternoon of August 10, 1884, a relatively minor earthquake hit New York City. Estimated to have been 4.9 to 5.5 in magnitude, with its epicenter off the coast of Coney Island or Far Rockaway, the quake lasted for about 10 seconds but caused little damage. Nonetheless, it was felt as far south as [...]
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THE LATE, ETERNAL ROLLINO
January 13th, 2010
The world has seen its share of circus strongmen suddenly appear and just as suddenly disappear. Ordinary human beings whose superhuman abilities to lift tremendous weights or break infrangible objects made them sensational if temporal celebrities in the eyes of fascinated crowds. Coney Island was once America’s primary showplace for such performers possessed with herculean [...]
POLAR-BEARING THE COLD
January 5th, 2010
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Those hearty connoisseurs of frigid waters were back again for yet another well-publicized swim. On January 1, an estimated 1,000 people took part in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim and Polar Plunge; its largest gathering since the club was founded in 1903.
How cold is it? It is [...]
REVIVING CLEOPATRA & CONEY ISLAND
December 6th, 2009
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Few legends have had as many deaths as Coney Island…with the possible exception of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra. Upon being recalled to Rome, the vainglorious Mark Antony is cautioned by his first officer Enobarbus that the equally vainglorious Queen of Egypt will die if he left her. He tells Antony:
Cleopatra, catching but the least noise [...]
CRATER’S OBLIVION Part 2
September 23rd, 2009
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Not until the disappearance of teamsters’ boss Jimmy Hoffa in 1975, would a missing person’s investigation inspire as much publicity, allegations, speculation, innuendos, gossip and, of course, jokes. The confusion started almost immediately with none other than Mrs. Crater. When the Judge failed to return to Maine for 10 days, only then did she [...]
NY AQUARIUM’S RENOVATED FUTURE
September 18th, 2009
The New York Aquarium is undergoing a massive $100 million overhaul. Along with its main building, two enormous shark tanks, housing over thirty sharks (four times its present number), will be added for your shark-engaged viewing pleasure.
The project, called “Sea Change,” is a partnership between the city, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Wildlife [...]
PRINGLES, ANYONE?
September 12th, 2009
Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz’s proposed $64-million amphitheater has reached a dead end. Dubbed the “Potato Chip” by friends and foes alike, it’s a controversial project (in a growing list of NYC controversial projects) hoping to rise in Coney Island’s Asser Levy Park and bring big-name performers/ shows to its current concert venue.
The delay comes after [...]
BELL FROM THE DEPTHS
September 5th, 2009
Dreamland Amusement Park was totally destroyed by fire on May 27, 1911; the first of Coney Island’s three great parks (the others being Luna Park and Steeplechase Pier) to meet with tragedy. Among the victims of the fire, was a 500-pound brass bell that was situated at the tip of the Dreamland pier and used [...]
SCENE TODAY AT CONEY ISLAND
July 18th, 2009
Sandstorm by rourkeerin on Flickr
Today is not one of those meteorologically pleasing days. A stationary front stretching south and east of the city will reanimate and move toward us as a zombie cold front this afternoon. It’s hunger for human flesh not sated until heat, humidity, hail and the hounds of Hades are unleashed upon [...]
SEEING THE SEA LIONS
July 12th, 2009
Forget about cash cows, the Wildlife Conservation Society has informed us that the New York Aquarium has just launched a program that will allow visitors to get up close and personal with their sea lions… for a price. The Gothamist
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WEEGEE ON THE SHORE
June 15th, 2009
Coney Island, as Mile Barth points out, was “originally meant to be a classy place. Over the years, it became middle class and then lower middle class and then working class.” This little spit of land off Brooklyn’s southeastern tip was once crammed with a crazy array of saints and sinners, lovers and gangsters, clowns [...]
JUST CRUISING ALONG
April 10th, 2009
A humpback whale decided to visit New York yesterday morning. Surfacing in the waters to the north of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, it was estimated to be about 30- to 40-feet long. After some idle swimming in the Narrows, the whale, probably sensing that nothing much was going on in those parts, decided to cruise south [...]
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- Brooklyn Teens Tackle Tolerance Through Film March 16, 2010Student-Driven Movie Takes on Issues Facing Local Youth “I already draw attention to myself when I walk down the street. I’m black.” A couple students laughed; others followed up with questions, animated. Five teens sat around a table, debating whether or […]
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