Coney Island, with its beach, amusement parks, and numerous other attractions, became emblematic of nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century urban condition while at the same time providing relief from the enormous risks of living in a huge metropolis....

Coney Island is a peninsula, formerly an island, in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA, with a beach on the Atlantic Ocean. The eponymous neighborhood is a community of 60,000 people in the western part of the peninsula, with Seagate to its west;...

A panel of experts convened by the Municipal Art Society (MAS) will meet Wednesday night to discuss the forthcoming transformation of Coney Island. Noticably missing from the debate: Thor Equities developer Joseph Sitt, whose controversial plan to soon raze and reconstruct the Brooklyn beach community's...

The developer who wants to modernize Coney Island's amusement district has scrapped plans to build rental apartments and luxury condominiums as part of the project.Critics of Thor Equities' plan to turn the amusement park at Coney Island, Brooklyn, into a Las Vegas-style entertainment complex had...

A Coney Island for the new millennium, combining $2.5 billion in private investment with flourishes from its storied past, was unveiled Thursday as the city released its plan to convert the fading beachfront into a world-class, year-round attraction.The much-anticipated proposal includes zoning for business, residential...

The view from the Coney Island boardwalk depends on the perspective: The long shadows of the Cyclone roller coaster evoke the past. The lounging sun worshippers dotting the beach belong to the present.And the makeshift plywood fences, the empty lots and ancient arcades _ well,...