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Photo of the Day: Mermaid Avenue at Dusk

Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged , , on June 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In Woody Guthrie’s delightful song about Coney Island’s Mermaid Avenue, where he lived in the 1940s and ’50s, the songwriter says that he’d never seen a mermaid here. Neither have we. But at last night’s screening of “The Prince of Mermaid Avenue” at the South Brooklyn Youth Consortium at 2811 Mermaid, ATZ asked a couple [...]

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New Ride: The Whip + Tilt-A-Whirl = MegaWhirl

Posted in Amusement ride, tagged , , , , on June 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »

We’ve been a fan of Mangels’ Whip and Sellner’s Tilt-A-Whirl since our days as a carny kid, so naturally we’re excited about the debut of the MegaWhirl. Called the “MegaWhip” during its development phase, the new ride is said to combine the thrill of the Whip and the Tilt in a whole new way. MegaWhirl [...]

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Art of the Day: Alice in Coney Island

Posted in art, Reading & Writing, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“One graphic that stopped me in my tracks was a Victorian view of Coney Island’s Astroland Park in its heyday with the sound of the Cyclone Roller Coaster pervading the soundtrack,” writes David Winograd in his review of “Alice in New York” for the iPad. It stopped us too: The Astroland Rocket has rejoined Papa [...]

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