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  2. Coney Island - Wikipedia

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    Area code. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to the north and includes the subsection of Sea Gate on its ...

  3. Coney Island closing permanently to make way for new ... - AOL

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    In 2019, Coney Island announced that it was getting rid of its rides to focus on its Sunlite Pool water park area. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio water park Coney ...

  4. Wonder Wheel - Wikipedia

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    Wonder Wheel. /  40.574028°N 73.979139°W  / 40.574028; -73.979139. The Wonder Wheel is a 150-foot-tall (46 m) eccentric Ferris wheel at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park at Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [3] The wheel is located on a plot bounded by West 12th Street to the west, Bowery Street to the north, Luna ...

  5. Steeplechase Park - Wikipedia

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    Steeplechase Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1897 to 1964.Steeplechase Park was created by the entrepreneur George C. Tilyou as the first of the three large amusement parks built on Coney Island, the other two being Luna Park (1903) and Dreamland (1904).

  6. Riegelmann Boardwalk - Wikipedia

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    2583 [1] The Riegelmann Boardwalk (also known as the Coney Island Boardwalk) is a 2.7-mile-long (4.3 km) boardwalk along the southern shore of Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Opened in 1923, the boardwalk runs between West 37th Street to the west, at the edge of the Sea Gate neighborhood, and ...

  7. Coney Island in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Coney Island is the home of hacker collective fsociety, in the drama-thriller series, Mr. Robot. Scenes were also shot on Coney Island's Wonder Wheel. Coney Island was the first location visited during the final leg of The Amazing Race 21, where the final three teams had to find a clue hidden in plain sight on the Riegelmann Boardwalk.

  8. Human zoo - Wikipedia

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    Human zoo. A group of Igorot displayed at a human zoo during the St. Louis World's Fair [1] [2] Natives of Tierra del Fuego, brought to Paris by the Maître in 1889. Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were public displays of people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. [3]

  9. Symphony: New music venue at Coney Island will keep some ...

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    March 8, 2024 at 8:22 PM. A view of the front gate at Coney Island in Cincinnati on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Some of Coney Island’s features will remain in the new music venue being built by the ...