Easily accessible by subway, the 7, 500-seat MCU Park overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and Coney Island amusement park.
Launched in 1916, the company opened with a single stand in Brooklyn's Coney Island.
Some Coney Island staples that have been shut since the hurricane have no choice.
The Coney Island library is closed, and the post office is only partially open.
Coney Island has lured New Yorkers with promises of cheap thrills for well over a century.
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Growing up in Brooklyn, the big treat for Morris was a trip to Coney Island.
The contest started nearly 100 years ago as a sideshow on the notorious boardwalk in Coney Island.
When they burst they caused fires, destroying, among other things, the Dreamland amusement park in Coney Island.
He got his start at a Coney Island sideshow, as he told WHYY's "Fresh Air" in 1987.
The contest started nearly a century ago as a sideshow on the notorious boardwalk in Coney Island.
In 1998, I saw the band at a small venue in New York called Coney Island High.
From there, they will snake across surface streets to reach the West 8th Street beach at Coney Island.
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"We're happy the parks have opened, but the message that Coney Island's recovered is not accurate, " he added.
The stairway is made from wood salvaged from the old Coney Island boardwalk.
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Managers contemplated shipping animals away and wondered whether the institution itself could survive in its spot on Coney Island.
The life-size statue in Coney Island shows Robinson and Reese arm in arm.
The day's festivities, many of them free, were to be followed by a fireworks display over the Coney Island beach.
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Nearly 11 million people flocked to Coney Island Beach last year between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to city figures.
Nostalgic local residents and excited tourists gathered Saturday at Luna Park in Coney Island to help celebrate the anniversary of the treasured landmark.
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But it was a Polish immigrant named Nathan Handwerker that made Coney Island as synonymous with the hot dog as it is today.
It's about a day when we mastered the last album in the US and we just got the train up to Coney Island.
In Coney Island, New York, Edward Krachie wolfed down 22 hot dogs, buns included, to win the annual Nathan's Famous Hot-Dog Eating Contest.
In Coney Island, a statue portrays Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, the white Dodger who stood by him in the face of racist taunts.
Brooklynites mourning the loss of their Coney Island boardwalk to a concrete replacement will find it in the handsomely recycled wood of the court floor.
"You know that the World's Hot Dog Eating Champion is crowned in Coney Island and nowhere else, and that's where he'll be crowned, " he said.
" Ms. Beloff has conjured up a whole organization of them in an installation called "Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle, 1926-1972.
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The Army Corps of Engineers had built up the beach, but the ocean still flows to a creek that curves around the back of Coney Island.
More than two dozen unsalvageable buildings in or around Coney Island still need to be demolished, said Chuck Reichenthal, the district manager of the area's community board.
Although most rides didn't suffer structural damage, Coney Island's amusement areas and adjacent boardwalk were covered in sand and flooded with up to five feet of water.
"Coney Island is much more than just an amusement district, " said Mark Treyges, a 30-year-old teacher and volunteer with the Sandy Task-force Recovery Organized by Neighborhood Groups.
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