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I'm really feeling Coney Island lately. What are your favorite and not so favorite parts? Suggestions for good bars or restaurants? Ditto for Brighton Beach. Also, any reccommendations for good places to eat/things to do in Bay Ridge?

So far I like: hot dogs, lemonade, and fried clams with chips at Nathan's, Lola Starr, an incredibly savvy mermaid-centric boutique–gift store on the boardwalk, and Astroland park.

I don't like: the gated community (Seagate?) which hides the Coney Island lighthouse from public view, and the swinging cars of the ferris wheel, scary.

Keyspan baseball park seems nice; it would be fun to watch a baseball game while overlooking the ocean, but too bad about Steeplechase park.

Anyway, make suggestions (please).

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 16 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the haunted roller coaster where Scooby and his pals caught the ghost!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 June 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really feeling Coney Island lately.

hipster. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked: Skee ball and cheap jewelry purchased with the proceeds thereof,
Cyclone batting cage (watching the 100 m.p.h. cage),
Graffiti

I didn't like: pink popcorn

It was all very Warriors. (My favorite Warriors gang is the Orphans, not the Baseball Furies, as you might think.)

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and I suggest going to the Siren Festival, naturally.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

THE JERSEY SHORE ROXOR ALL U CONEY ISLAND LUVRS R GAY!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally agree. I'm all about Wildwood.

Hey, I haven't been to Coney Island in ages (and I grew up 'round those parts). Is the carousel still operational?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

So out here in the midwest we used to eat Coney Island hot dogs- a hot dog with a chili type of topping. That's all i know about Coney island.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Tad & Jody: the Jersey shore is my next thread.

Another disappointment: Luna Park, which is actually a car park.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 16 June 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Luna Park vs Linkin Park

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to live in a town called Lincoln Park.

The Jersey Shore suxors, Wildwood is totally boring. We should all go to Six Flags.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna vs. Luna²

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Council Bluffs

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 16 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jersey Shore suxors, Wildwood is totally boring. We should all go to Six Flags.

Once again, the coven of Ally rules! Six Flags has the fastest (and most death-defying) rollercoasters; the food doesn't choke you and at the end of the day, you only feel slightly ripped off.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

My roommie was taking his Bed-Stuy 8th graders to Six Flags today. He was so excited last night he couldn't fall asleep.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Roomie only has one 'm', Yanc3y, jesus.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 16 June 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I had the best afternoon of my life at last year's Siren Festival. It was the day of the power outage, so it took a few hours to get down to Coney Island, but it was so worth it. Cyclone = Classic. They turned the Hiphop Avalanche/Himalaya thing into a Hipster Avalanche/Himalaya and were playing Sleater-Kinney and Andrew WK. Way fun. And the best part was going to that bar and seeing L*rry Tee DJ'ing to nobody-at-all. Didn't see any bands though. Heard a bit of Mooney Suzuki, I think.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/coney1.jpg

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― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

those blocks of flats are v.leany gareth

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh what is going on with those tower blocks?

i love Coney Island tho i have never been (soon my pretties, soon)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The buildings aren't leany; they're just angled weirdly.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Taken in 1974 (this was my subway stop until we moved out of the neighborhood in 1991):

http://www.nycsubway.org/img/i7000/img_7188.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

you just dont get that high a concentration of tower block flats in London it seems. nice train tho.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

coney island fap!! coney island fap!!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I know exactly where you lived, JBR! I lived not too far from there for two years. I really miss it (not the commute tho).

We should go to Rasputin, this Russian mob club down there. Scary place. Saw Billy Corgan outside there once, strangely.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Ruby's a good bar?

The mermaid parade is this Sat.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Mermain parade is this week??? I had no idea it was so soon. Ruby's is a great bar. Lots of fun.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's this Sat. Yanc3y, since you lived in C.I. for 2 yrs you are required to divulge all of its secrets to me.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Pic taken from my terrace sometime in the '80s. That's the Verrazano Bridge in the background.

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/coney1.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

if you like saggy tits it's the place to be! i guess i'll head down. it's not really all that great -- get drunk or get high first and you'll have fun tho. some friends of mine made a float last year that won a prize! i was sposed to be on it, but i showed up late (see my "get drunk or get high first" bit).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

From the other side: Brighton Beach.

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/brighton1.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ocean Parkway (with the Belt Parkway crossing over it). Coney Island Hospital in the background, Lincoln High School in the left foreground.

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/oceanparkway.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm a Coney Island baby now."

http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/34/19/137235-resized200.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That high school was directly adjacent to my apartment building. Apparently, alumni of that school include:

Neil Diamond - musician
Neil Sedaka - musician
Stephon Marbury - professional basketball player
Lee Mazzilli - professional baseball player
Arthur Miller - playwright - Death of a Salesman; The Crucible
Paul Berg - Noble Prize winner in Chemistry
Jerome Karl - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Harvey Keitel
Mel Brooks - producer, director, comedy writer
Buddy Rich - jazz drummer
Arthur Kornberg - Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Louis Gossett Jr. - actor/activist - Roots; Benny's Place; An Officer and a Gentleman
Morris Engel - photographer/director - Little Fugitive; Lovers and Lollipops; Camillia
Joseph Heller - novelist - Catch-22
Sam Goldaper - New York Times sportswriter
Raul Hilberg - Holocaust Scholar
Ken Auletta - author and columnist
Marv Albert - tv sports personality

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Some good info here:

http://www.coneyislandusa.com/

Just a reminder: If you're planning on heading out there, the F isn't making the trip at the moment, only the W goes to Stilwell Avenue. (Or you can get a shuttle from the last F stop -- Ave X.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear that Requiem for a Dream is a nice movie.

http://www.imdb.com/Title?Requiem+for+a+Dream+(2000)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Is anyone going to the Parade Saturday? I'm not sure if I'm going since I'm supposed to go to a SI Yankees game that night...

― hstencil, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm most likely going though showers are predicted:(

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Me and my crew on route to the parade

http://www.posterville.com/library/warriors.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

fuc, another year goes by & i will miss the siren parade.
are there bands? i remember guided by voices played a couple summers back..i think/

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

two different things. siren takes place in late july.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Siren is July 19. There's a band list next door.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR, if you're talking about the B&B Carousel, apparently it's the only ride left north of Surf Ave.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa*
mucho gracias senor

any other classic rides? All i know of is 'the cyclone'

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever happened to bob log $ his helmet , boob shot?

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I was down in Coney/Brighton today. Broke into my old building (well really I just followed someone into the side entrance and no questions were asked), moseyed around Ocean Parkway and BBA and Neptune Ave and and Surf Ave. Ate at Nathan's, played skeeball on the boardwalk, walked along the sand... twas nice. Bummer that they've totally demolished the beautiful old facade of the Stilwell Ave station. If they restore it I hope they do it soon.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

cash in any skeeball tickets?

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, I didn't get that many. I only spent 75 cents (for three games).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

down the way from me (salem, ma.) they still have a genie machine that tells you your fortune. and a scarey monkey 3 piece band machine,where you put in a penny and these three raggedy monkeys clap their cymbals and strum guitar. the monkeys are not doing so well. falling apart. also, they have this odd, um-booth that you stand in and- i think you crank a wheel, and it plays old felix the cat reels
good stuff. i will be sad when it is gone

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

IN addition to the W train, MTA is running 2 "Beach Buses" from non-W stops to Coney Island. One Beach Bus is from "Avenue X," the last stop on the F line, to the Boardwalk. The other one I really couldn't pay attention to because my mind was overwhelmed with how cool it would be to live on Avenue X with my housemates Storm and Wolverine.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all fun and games until you actually move to Avenue X and realize the only way to get in and out is to take the F for four hours.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If I lived on Avenue X why would I ever leave? This was the lesson of "The Warriors."

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless you're a carny, you probably need to go somewhere else for work!

(note: I'm pretty sure there's no jobs for carnies there either, but I wanted to use the word "carny")

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all fun and games until you actually move to Avenue X and realize the only way to get in and out is to take the F for four hours.

Those poor, poor Brooklynites. What are they thinking?! Everyone should move to the Upper West Side obv.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Living in the Real World: Avenue X my job would be lady pilot so my commute would be to JFK or LaGuardia. It better not take me 4 hours. Time is money.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

jbr in being condescending for no apparent reason towards a joke I've made shockah! Can felicity and I go back to our conversation about mutants and carnies now? Or do you want to call me a cunt again? Either way, it's cool!

felicity, how do you get a job as a lady pilot? Can you wear a "naughty" pilot uniform to do that? What would Wolverine's role in this be?

I think I'd rather live on Avenue X than in Linkin Park, I should've moved there prior to my current apt. I mean, your address would be something like 437 Avenue X!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Four hours = more like 45 minutes. For years my grandma commuted to midtown from her place at East 4th and Avenue X and she did just fine.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

but when do we get to go to cincinnatti?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

There are a number of ways to break in, but I got my Associate's degree in Lady Piloting from Dr. Xavier Nadler's Flight Academy for wayward X-girls. I think it helps to wear a pussycat blouse to the interview. Good luck.

Wolverine's role is very limited until they set the airport metal detectors not to go Danger! Danger! Adamantium! every time he comes to visit.

We are starting nonstop flights from Cincinnati in the fall but it's only one-way.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I lived on Ave X so all yall can suck my schnozzle!

And for me to get to work at 50th St. it took anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and fifteen minutes.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

f%cking monkeys stealing all my change with their mad beats.

― kephm, Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

its all about genies with electric green eyes and three headed sirens.

― kephm, Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

A Coney Island of the Mind
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/03/4e/0811200418-resized200.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the Cyclone. It was scary and now my neck and shoulders hurt, like, I can barely turn my head.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I ilke the sub-articulate bartender at Rubys and the Italian restaraunt Carolina's (in business since 1928) on Mermaid Ave.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

on WNYC right now, but preserved for anytime (well maybe this week)/anywhere: Studio 360 with They Might Be Giants from/about Coney Island

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 July 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

argh PRI argh

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 July 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinda funny that they brought TMBG in as Official Coney Island Experts. TMBG: "Is the Cyclone still here?" Show Host: "Uh, you're standing in front of it."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the show is always like that. at least This American Life and such get somewhere.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That bar we ended up at was amazing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you were at Ruby's. Sigh. And big ups to that Japanese kid for winning the hot dog contest again.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 July 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll kick his ass as soon as I can figure out how to enter

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It was Ruby's, Mary. We were on the beach, running under the sprinklers like water-deprived Struthers kids, and we all took a collective sigh and said "Well that was fun. What now?" Me: "TO THE BAR!!" The others: "I love you, JBR." And we marched onward towards the best little watering hole in Coney Island.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

HUGE PICTURE ALERT. My great grandmother took this picture when they lived in Brooklyn. It's from 1935--look at how crowded it was!

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/images/coneyisland.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I just realized that I have a whole book about Coney Island in the 20s

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leo5yXNVxYjRkcAJnWslAc7kD/RggvnsujS490dJJk//z68IG26BKOD2BHjNVVP9Df9ngT3n9+2a6HOQkRYOHE5BdizNuuW5kK6gBlHY0080T6RAi7gFEzz2qt3fQ7UW9DGZbZ1DMunMSOjWEkA3wSek2Gmi0YIUOtyFVEbUmAHZ49zaJ5J5B4Tj

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 31 July 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

More pictures! I am going to Coney Island this weekend when Franz visits. I need to get a bathing suit but I would rather dress like the kid in the lower right hand corner in the suit and tie and hat. We really wants to ride the Cyclone but Ally and Phil's brutal trip has put me off. Although, Byron remained unscathed.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the real key is just that me and Phil are apparently complete spazzes. Also I contorted my body into a weird position to hide the fact that my breasts had become partially bare by the whipping rollercoaster brutality shockah.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god, there should totally be a tube top only Cyclone riding day. Men, women and children.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

All will come out bloodied and battered, just like World War II.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cyclone took some skin off my knuckles. (I am not as brave as phil to do the no hands thing.) And now my forehead is peeling from Sandy Hook.

The beach, she is such a cruel mistress.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I have virtually no peeling despite my demon burn! Bow before me, the magical skinned mistress!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I must eat here very soon.

http://www.totonnos.com/Index.html

(I have given up on Garguilos.)

If I don't go to Baltimore perhaps I shall go to the NY Aquarium this weekend.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I must eat at Totonno's too.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmmm... I want to eat at these places too, but it'll end up being another meal where I make Franz buy me non vegan things while I watch him eat a small salad with no cheese. Which is actually quite fun on occasion. This reminds me to bring a non sandal, non shorts, non jeans, non t-shirt wardrobe if I want to eat at Garguilos.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/umbrella.jpg

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/radiohead.jpg

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/popband.jpg

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/freakshow.jpg

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/avenuex.jpg

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/cyclone.jpg

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/summer/beach.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 4 August 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me about the above

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew you'd like that :)

that umbrella kept flying around the beach all over and its owners refused to come get it half the time. It almost smacked bnw in the head if I recall. Then we found a bus covered in Radiohead which was so weird. The "pop band" sign is the entrance to the Cyclone--I don't know what it meant entirely but it was pretty good.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and then we have the freakshow which I don't want to ever go in but it's funny from outside. The subway station is cool cos it says "Avenue X" on it which I reckon is a good place to live. Then we have my nemesis the Cyclone and the ferris wheel in the distance. The beach shot, somewhere in there is bnw and Mary.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Then we found a bus covered in Radiohead which was so weird.

I like this image.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice! (The umbrella is from Sandy Hook, yes?)

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Just a few blocks from the beach is a Mexican restaurant with a HUGE mural of a black and silver naked woman painted on the wall! It's great. I have pixxx of it on my computer but I can't host shit.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh the umbrella IS from Sandy Hook, crap. Sorry.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

it would be fun to watch a baseball game while overlooking the ocean

i'd been thinking this lately, but i just checked and oh no the season ends wednesday

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 31 August 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

This is a public service announcement. C.I. (sadly) is over. Don't fret, though. Now it's all about BRIGHTON BEACH. (By the way, I walked from Avenue X to Coney Island, I see now why that woman advised against it. It wasn't the most salubrious walk, under the disused elevated train tracks the whole way...)

So BRIGHTON: either walk west on the boardwalk, or even better, take a train directly there and skip C.I. entirely. High rises give way to lovely pre-war apartment buildings, similar to the area around the Cloisters. On the boardwalk there are no less than four dining establishments, outdoor cafe style for a Moscow on the Seine feel: Cafe Tatiana, Cafe Volna... White table cloths, silverwear, strange Russian food, vodka....On the other side of a burned out building there is the dark Bar Moscow which looked handsomely seedy.

However, I hear all the action is on Brighton Beach Avenue. I didn't get to explore over there yet though. One blight: there is a monstrosity development project on the sight of the orginal Brighton Baths -- and monstrosity it is, looks like the sand-pink colored condominums lining Springfield Mall in VA.. These are aptly named "Brighton-on-the-Sea."

So, BRIGHTON. Make suggestions.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Brighton Beach east of Coney?

― hstencil, Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Pedant!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

just trying to help.

― hstencil, Thursday, 25 September 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Cheburashka would feel right at home there.

http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~ichiichi/sj/image2/cheburashka.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What is that thing? He looks like something you would pull out of the shower drain. But happier.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha: he is an animated creature from old-school Russia. He doesn't even know what kind of animal he is.

http://video.dnepr.net/images/covers/cheburashka.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

>>This is a public service announcement. C.I. (sadly) is over. Don't fret, though. Now it's all about BRIGHTON BEACH. (By the way, I walked from Avenue X to Coney Island, I see now why that woman advised against it. It wasn't the most salubrious walk, under the disused elevated train tracks the whole way...)<<

Cool...less hipsters in line for Cyclone. Guess I'll have no problem dropping $20 to keep the last seat all to myself. =)

-has more fun at Coney than at Great Adventure this past year-
Alan

― Alan Conceicao, Thursday, 25 September 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://chebur.hobby.ru/images/group_1.gif

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 September 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well being an obnoxious hipster, I will gladly go to Brighton Beach. We should go this weekend?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should.

Mary

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://pod-135.dolphin-server.co.uk/~gareth/ilx/cheburashka.jpg

― ... (gareth), Friday, 26 September 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've noticed that Charlton is around 60 in the users survey. I wonder about this dashing new poster.

Mary

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he is dreamy! Perhaps he would also like to come to Brighton Beach sometime? We should go this weekend, especially if the weather stays like this because I think that would make for nice photographs. Maybe I can finally get a NICE photo of me and Mr. Millar, instead of that ridiculous drunk one with our tongues hanging out?

Also I have that new shirt from Alphabets I could wear?

xoxo
crowdjoining Ally

PS Cheburashka is adorable!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Alphabets was stripey fall panties, but you got a shirt too? Darn you, covert shopper.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a shirt!! A CCCP polo shirt, and also the stripey fall panties with Julius on them.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Will you wear the stripey panties with the matching stripey knee-highs?

felicity

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes of course! I wish I had a stripey bra :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised Julius didn't make a matching one. Fall shopping: don't let it pass you by.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

brighton beach.

tell me about it.

-- Ally (mlescau...), September 26th, 2003 2:24 PM. (mlescaut) (later) (link)

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

hey gals, quit yr jobs and let's go on a WEEKDAY

yancey

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

dear yancey:

HELLO STRANGER DID YOU DROP OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!

xoxo
Ally

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I am available for weekday excursions.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

me too, I just decided.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

HELLO STRANGRESS I DID DROP OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH BUT I HAVE RETURNED WITH JEWELS AND TECHNOLOGIES WANNA SEE?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

YES I DO PLEASE BRING THIS WEEKEND??? DO U WANT 2 HANG OUT?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ya-a-ncey! Come! Out to pla-a-y!

-welcomes home the lost Warriors-
felicity

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll buy you a drink if you come out!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I DO WANT TO HANG OUT NOT SURE ABOUT THIS WEEKEND MAYBE SATURDAY NITE. WILL RITE SOON. XOXOXOXO

AARON COMES BACK INTO TOWN SOON YAHOO!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't miss you either Yancey.

Mary

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

U NEVER WRITE U R A LIAR. I HAVE WRITTEN U OFF AS DEAD. KISSES!!!

(PS SATURDAY NITE WOULD BE GOOD THO)

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

GLAD WE GOT THAT OUT OF THE WAY MARY

yancey

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

But please tell me about the good Russian establishments in BB anyway.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I THINK IT IS SAFE TO SAY PHILLIES OUT OF THE RUNNING FOR THE EAST. I OWE YOU $10.

felicity

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Geeze guys, Brighton Beach is so "first half of 2003". Been there, done that, have the photographs...

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/2003nyc/brighton-imperator.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/2003nyc/brighton-mosvideo.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Beach towns are better in the fall.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

so are russians.

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Beach towns in the fall are grey, windy and smell of salt and retirees. I love it!

Mary did you get to see a grey Brighton?

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 26 September 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It was grey; we picked the only overcast day to go the beach!

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 26 September 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Winterbathers

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

i miss it you know. i want to be there when the heat is on, but that seems so weird.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Uh oh . . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/nyregion/18coney.html?pagewanted=1

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

A further "uh oh" story:

http://www.nypress.com/18/16/pagetwo/newshole2.cfm

No Nathan's or Ruby's? Unimaginable.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

This is awful, totally awful.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if the NYC Landmark commission could designate it as such.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

They could but god forbid they do that to anything besides the entirety of TriBeCa.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

That is abysmal. by all means redevelop, but please do it in a way that makes the best of what has kept the area going during the low years. This must be the good stuff if it's kept going through the lean times.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't be opposed to development AROUND Steeplechase etc, but REPLACEMENT would be unforgivable.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Yikes.

Coney Island FAP?

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Mermaid Parade is June 25.

I confess I went on the Cyclone just once (circa '99, my ONLY lifetime 'coaster experience) and am bewildered how anyone could find it pleasurable... My friend, age 55 at the time, said "This was a lot more fun 30 years ago." I had mild whiplash for a week.

I was last on the Wonder Wheel in 1970, with my dad (who had acrophobia).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

The Cyclone was the most horrifying experience of, like, the last 5 years of my life, to be blunt about it. Ugh. I was bruised everywhere, had whiplash, strained arms because I had to cling so hard to the belt thing (too far away from my body to really serve its purpose) and...and...my boobs fell out of my bathing suit while riding it!!!! Arrgh. No no, it is better to sit on the beach and then go to Nathans, than to get on the Cyclone.

But it should not go away!

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

FUCK THIS COUNTRY. FUCK AMERICA RIGHT IN THE ASS. THIS SHIT IS A WAR CRIME. I WILL FUCKING MURDER PEOPLE.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Honestly stories like this make me think that I'm not going to miss NY as much as I fear; I don't understand the current climate to Disney-fy/strip-mall-ize NYC.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

This makes me cry. I will go again, in June, now, I think.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

And they're closing the HoJo's in T!mes Square. Really, fuck everyone with a bee stick. You want to build shit? Go build some low-income housing. Greedy megalomaniac luxury snorting motherfuckers. We hate you. We really really do.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I just don't understand why they'd push out successful businesses instead of trying to develop new businesses around them.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

the Cyclone rules! but I hear your pain. I'm going to COney on May 1st hopefully.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Where you going to, Ally?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to go to Coney Island, when I was in NYC. I have been once: in 1988.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

I was out there briefly yesterday morning to buy a few baseball tix; not deserted, but still underpopulated enough to evoke "Requiem for a Dream." Main exit of the subway station under major renovation.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Siren Fest vs. Mookie Wilson bobblehead night omg wtf!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I still really want to go to Coney Island, someday. I guess it should be some time soon before it gets too Disneyfied.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

(END OF THE) WORLD FAP

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I'd vote for the game right after Dungen plays.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/parachute%20pavilion.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Vogons?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

you're entitled to your opinion

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Some minor notes:

-Where Nathan's is now is not the original location. They'd probably just move somewhere else in Coney.

-While the Go-Karts are nice, the indoor water park coming with the mall is probably gonna do a lot more for the place overall, especially in winter time.

-The Cyclone does, has, and always will rule.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

last Summer?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 27 May 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

my (edinburgh-based) friend's first band were called coney island cyclone. it was 1995. he'd never been; he just liked the name. i spent hours designing a tape cover in pagemaker 5, with a picture of the cyclone, for his demo.

when i went to NY in february 1997, i rode out to coney island just for his sake. it was fucking awesome. the whistle of the wind under the boardwalk will live with me for ever. russian dudes selling televisions in little stalls by the side of the road. an abandoned army recruiting stall. a place selling donuts. the cyclone was shut. the wind whistled under my soul. i didn't want to leave.

my friend played bass for a while with arab strap, and now has a band called sans trauma. you should look them up on myspace. linking would seem too gratuitous, so it's up to you.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 28 May 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm quite impressed by the standard of my grammar and spelling when i'm drunk.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 28 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

"People are worried about losing the certain character that Coney Island has always had,"

That creepy, dismal charm...

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 28 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

32 oz. killian's + the cyclone = goooooood tiiiiimes

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 29 May 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Went on Wonder Wheel Saturday for the first time since 1970. Next visit: age 80.

We just stood under the Cyclone to listen to it and laugh. (not ever again)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Were you swinging though? Thats the important question.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I think schefter & Jimmy the Mod got German neu-ish fashion fotos on Boardwalk yesterday.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 July 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

On the boardwalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYeGrDWJbf0

― Jordan, Monday, 9 July 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I spent today, the opening day of Astroland, in bed. However, a Lola Staar Roller Rink is opening next Sat., Mar. 22.

http://kineticcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/03/lola-staars-roller-rink-to-be-housed-in.html

― Virginia Plain, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

I have always preferred to read the 'Coney Island' in the first sentence as an adverb.

― gabbneb, Monday, 17 March 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

I don't get it

― the pinefox, Monday, 17 March 2008 14:04 (seventeen years ago)

I meant adjective. Not as a noun, at least.

― gabbneb, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.observer.com/2008/coney-island-s-last-summer-take-two

― gabbneb, Thursday, 29 May 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

http://mas.org/imagineconey/

― gabbneb, Saturday, 8 November 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The current ny1 piece has me starting to wonder both ways on this

― Paul's moustache (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 24 November 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

what was the single way you were wondering before?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 24 November 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago)

you mean this one and not the one about Astroland moving to Australia, right?

― gabbneb, Monday, 24 November 2008 14:19 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

hey, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are leading the parade on Saturday

(make up your own joeks)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:33 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, when my son and I were out at Coney Island Saturday night we came across the Coney Island Dancers (who have a website I have not checked out yet) on the boardwalk dancing as couples and solo to Latin-tinged disco. Some nice moves. Plus various others walking by joined in. Interesting.

― curmudgeon, Monday, August 24, 2009

A posting from last summer on the Latin music thread...

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://www.coneyislandfunguide.com/Events/Burlesque-at-the-Beach--Cramp-Us-Coney-Islands-Christmas-in-July_7_15_2010-2540.htm

Tribute to the late Lux Interior and the Cramps tonight

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)

Coney Island is the island of coneys. This is a coney:

http://faculty.ucr.edu/~chappell/INW/mammals/pika5.jpg

P.S. They do not eat chili dogs.

― Aimless, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

If you haven't heard, Ruby's Bar and several other old-time businesses are being evicted. Rally/one-day reopening at Ruby's tomorrow afternoon at 12:30:

http://gothamist.com/2010/11/03/rubys_to_reopen_saturday_for_rally.php

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 November 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going to NYC some time next yr and it depresses me to think coney island will be all shut or changed before I get to see it :(

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Friday, 5 November 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

I'm the other way, went last year and am glad I made it before it all (it seems like) died.

― Dame Anna NAGL (aldo), Friday, 5 November 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago)

we're doing it all for you tourists.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 November 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

http://gothamist.com/2010/11/07/rubys_bar_1934-2010.php

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

Ruby's and 6 of the other businesses get one more summer, whoopdee-fuckin-do.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/rubys_other_con.html

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 March 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going to make a point of going to Coney a lot this year. All youse are welcome to join/invite me to your Coney doings, any time,

― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 7 March 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

For those who haven't heard, Cheap Trick are playing a free show there on Thurs Aug 18.

― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 14:53 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Markowitz wants to turn Coney into Vegas. Such a shit.

http://gothamist.com/2012/01/10/coney_island_casinos_marty_loves_th.php

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:59 (thirteen years ago)

idk, if people are gonna gamble it's better if the money goes to nyc

― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

otoh anything that would make markowitz happy is obviously wrong on some level

― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I'm going back for the first time in ten years...what should i expect? i went to some weird coney island museum that was really cool and off the beaten path. all the kvetching about the cyclone makes me wonder, though, if i should ride it again...herniated 3 disks in my neck also around ten years ago

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:24 (thirteen years ago)

The rides are all new and wacky. Def get a candy apple at the little candy store next to Nathan's

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 August 2012 04:10 (thirteen years ago)

will do. thanks, whiney

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 11 August 2012 08:29 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

most of the Boardwalk to be replaced by concrete

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/01/12/despite_outrage_concrete_likely_for_coney_island_boardwalk.php

I guess the tourists won't notice, eh

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:01 (ten years ago)

I really want to love Coney Island, to have inherited my dad's childhood nostalgia for it or something, but I don't actually enjoy going there. Maybe if it were closer or something. But I much prefer just going to the Rockaways or the Long Island beaches.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:11 (ten years ago)

i never go there for the beach, but love it for the cyclone, totonno's. and russian food in nearby brighton beach.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:14 (ten years ago)

I will p much be going for short-season baseball henceforth

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:18 (ten years ago)

four years pass...

Took an early morning amble here today and damn i felt like I was on the moon. Such An escape

― calstars, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 19:19 (six years ago)

This thread. I still haven't been on the Cyclone because of allyzay's and phil-two's dislocations on it.

― Yerac, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:38 (six years ago)

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