This great vintage photograph shows the corner of West 10th Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn back in 1903. The roller coaster in the photograph is the Loop the Loop, one of…
This great vintage photograph from 1977 shows Debbie Harry, lead singer of new wave/pop band Blondie, hanging out in the parking lot of Luna Park at Coney Island, Brooklyn. The roller…
The Cyclone is a 91-year-old wooden roller coaster at Coney Island's Luna Park that rolls over 2,640 feet of track and features twelve drops. This great vintage photograph shows what the…
Captured on October 1st, 1921, this great vintage photograph shows Brooklyn Borough President Edward J. Riegelmann driving the very first stake into the ground for the Coney Island…
Colorized by expert colorist Dana Keller, this great vintage photograph shows elephants in Luna Park, and the Coney Island promenade around 1907, the way it probably looked as if you were…
"Roller Coaster Kids; Tales of 1960's Coney Island" is a Brooklyn artist's wild coming of age memoir that chronicles the author's many friendships and adventures while growing up in the…
Created sometime around 1925, this fascinating vintage film shows street and buildings around Midtown and Lower Manhattan, and the beach and boardwalk of Coney Island. Originally a silent…
This black-and-white vintage photograph from the winter of 1975 shows an empty Coney Island Boardwalk during a snow storm. Here is a Google StreetView of approximately the same view today:
Uploaded to YouTube by David W. Haas, M.D., this vintage home movie shows the bicycle races at the famous Coney Island Velodrome around 1930. The film was captured by Haas' grandfather, a…
"Let's Get Lost at Coney Island" is an interesting vintage poster from 1991 that uses densely-packed illustrations of hundreds of interesting sub-scenes you might find at the beach. It…