Coney Island

hipster. :-)

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.)

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

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

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.

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

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

The mermaid parade is this Sat.

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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

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.)

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

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

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

I don't get it

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

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

http://mas.org/imagineconey/

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

what was the single way you were wondering before?

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

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

(make up your own joeks)

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

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...

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

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.

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

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 :(

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

we're doing it all for you tourists.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

will do. thanks, whiney

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

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.

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

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

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

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

what was the name of the venue (described as a "freak show" by SFJ in The New Yorker) that existed in Coney Island in 1991 where bands like pavement and codeine would have played?

...on the boardwalk

are you talking about the shows at Coney Island High?

100% not. Coney Island high opened in StMarksPlace ~1996.

I'm talking specifically about Coney Island boardwalk proper, very early 1990s.

https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/coney-island-high--5?year=1991

than where did this show take place?

because this show predated CIH's opening by 4-5 years?

that particular show has been mis-tagged by user-generated content providers and now it's been inaccurately retconned.

here's Jesse talking about opening CIH years later:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGTMUeKJIw_/

perhaps the actual boardwalk venue was not really official so they just tagged it with that

Saw a Kokopop (Kramer's label) showcase at what I remember as the Freak Show, on the boardwalk, some time around '91.

that conveniently matches up with SFJ's reference to the venue being a "Freak Show" in The New Yorker.

nevermind it was

Sideshows By The Seashore
Surf & W 12th

mystery solved!

Yeah, asked friends who played and they said the Sideshow. Showcase must have been 93 or 94 based on the Kokopop release history.

Bill Callahan has been highly acclaimed for the long list of albums he's made under the alias 'Smog' and his own name since the early 1990s.

Yet he tells Kim Hill that his very first experience of performing music was the loneliest moment of his life.

The gig was at Coney Island venue Sideshows by the Seashore, supporting Pavement – an "upcoming hot band' from California.

"I was obviously completely green. I had no idea what it meant to play a show… I think I was more nervous for my first soundcheck than I was for my first show. Because I guess you could say it was the first time I'd ever performed for anybody was the soundcheck."

Callahan got little encouragement from watching Pavement's soundcheck before his own.

"As soon as they started playing their soundcheck all the heads started bobbing in the crowd and they applauded after each song, which isn't usually the case with a soundcheck. There's usually nobody there except for some people that work there.

"And then it was my turn, and everybody cleared out. Just me and Tim – my guitarist at the time – and the soundman. I shut my eyes and started playing a song and when I opened them again the soundman had left the room. Before I realised he was gone I was like 'yeah, that sounds pretty good' ... It was probably the loneliest moment of my life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k667520QIQY

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Dean Wareham:

Sideshow By The Seashore was a club, well I thought it was a club, I guess it was what you might call a freak show out in Coney Island. In the late eighties and early nineties, a friend of mine put on Friday night shows out there, indie rock shows, and people would go out there. One time, I was doing a solo set, anyway there was this huge storm and everyone had to come in off the boardwalk and there’s a lyric in there about that. “An electrical storm has caught us in a trap.” It really is a tongue twister, as is “Sideshow By The Seashore.”

I saw Ted Leo at Coney Island in the early oughts and down the boardwalk there was something called 'Shoot the Freak'... a guy in a padded suit idly wandered around a vacant lot and you paid money to shoot at him with a paint gun. I did not partake but it was fun to watch for a moment or two

the Siren Music Fest yeah, I was around for some of those