Archive | 13. Oct, 2007
“If Paris is France, Coney Island, between June and September, is the World.”

“If Paris is France, Coney Island, between June and September, is the World.”

by Erica Johansson on 13. Oct, 2007 in North America

Saturday afternoon. We stand by Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island’s main station. Most people living on Coney Island, located in southernmost Brooklyn with its famous beach on the Atlantic Ocean, are Hispanic or African-American. The area was once a major resort and home to amusements parks as the Steeplechase Park, the heart of Coney between 1897 and 1964. Its founder George [...]

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