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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)

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

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

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/coney2.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)

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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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