The stairway is made from wood salvaged from the old Coney Island boardwalk.

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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.

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And most of Coney Island's boardwalk bars, shops and restaurants are now open to sell cold beers, tchotchkes and fried clams to tourists and New York's most quirky characters alike.

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The contest started nearly 100 years ago as a sideshow on the notorious boardwalk in Coney Island.

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The contest started nearly a century ago as a sideshow on the notorious boardwalk in Coney Island.

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In fact, there are some early, early flight simulators on the Boardwalk at Coney Island back in the '40s that the military used to train potential pilots.

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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.

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