Coney Island

The desire for Coney Island to relax and entertain was always part of mankind. Business seems to find a way to meet this need all the time. But in America's history, it is not easy to accomplish this task. More attractive ideas and inventions eliminate old ways to enjoy life continuously. In the latter part of the 19th century, upper class social reformers seemed to find a new way to entertain the crowd, ie amusement parks.

"Because I grew up beside me, many of them came from memory, when Connie Island was a strange place, you live in a residential area with housing and school, and you are in Coney Island Suddenly there are magical things in all directions, such as vehicles, lights, acrobatics, etc. I sell popcorn and ice cream, but when I am a child I always have a great treat .When I use a rifle to win prizes You can earn but nothing more than this is wonderful "" When they first made it was a wonderful thing before I was born, the best in the world, one of the miracles, It was already very difficult when the movie appeared in the 1950's, but I think that the taxi really hits and was rebuilt about five years ago. , It was once the shackles. "

Coney Island is a residential area of ​​a peninsula located on the long island of Coney Island, the beach and leisure / recreational destinations that are part of the Lower Bay in the southwest of Brooklyn, NY. Coney Island was at the westernmost end of the island outside the southern coast of Long Island, but in the early 20th century it was connected to other parts of Long Island via landfill. The western part of the residential area of ​​the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people, Haimen in the west, Brighton beach in the east, Manhattan beach in the east, Lower Bay in the south, Grave send in the north.

At the turn of the 20th century, Coney Island was still an island separated by Coney Island Creek, three miles long from Brooklyn's headquarters. From the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, there were decades of plans to unblock small rivers and organize them into canals, but they were abandoned. By 1924 local landlords and cities buried a part of the stream. 337 Most of the creek was further buried to build a belt avenue in the 1930s and to build a peninsula in the west and east of the island. Due to the construction of Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, filling volume increased in 1962.