The Scenic Spiral Wheel was a unique roller coaster installed in Coney Island's Luna Park back in 1917. It was a 45 ton, 70 foot diameter steel wheel that was tipped towards its heavier side…
Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. Hammers recently got a chance to film a long length of the F…
Local transit historian and railfan Dj Hammers makes tons of great videos showing how subway transit works and runs in the City. Hammers recently got a chance to film almost the entire…
The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…
The New Kids on the Block may not be the teen heartthrobs that they were in the late 80s and early 90s, but the boy band is back and will perform a one night only show at Coney Island…
AstroLand was an amusement park on Coney Island that opened in 1962 and lasted nearly 50 years until its closing in 2008. This 'astro-tubular' vintage commercial from the early 1980s shows…
Dreamland was one of several amusement parks on Coney Island in the early 1900s. It lasted from 1904 through 1911 when it was destroyed by a fire after a worker accidentally kicked over a…
This vintage map of Coney Island from 1906 shows a fantastic aerial view of the Brooklyn neighborhood as it existed over a century ago. Of the many amusement parks that existed then, only…
American photographer Stephen Salmieri has captured photographs around New York City since his early twenties. His photography has been featured in the MOMA, the Getty, the Brooklyn Museum…
This vintage film from 1903 features a water ride that used to exist at Luna Park called "Shoot-the-Chutes." The camera was positioned to view the shoot-the-chutes concession from the best…
