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Food Truck Festival Under Consideration for Coney Island

Posted in Food, Food & Drink, tagged Coney Island, DevourNYC, food truck, food truck festival, restaurant on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »

South Street Seaport, Governors Island and Staten Island’s Midland Beach are some of the New York City destinations that have hosted food truck festivals–gatherings of 10 to 30 trucks– since the trend started four years ago. The above photo shows paper taco trucks, but real, live food trucks could roll into Coney Island this summer [...]

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Remnant of Under Boardwalk Bar Found in Coney Island

Posted in Food, Food & Drink, history, tagged bar, Brooklyn Beach Shop, Maya Haddad, menu, rathskeller, Under the Boardwalk on January 31, 2012 | 12 Comments »

The renovation of stores on the Coney Island Boardwalk has already uncovered the ghost lettering of an arcade and signage for Club Atlantis. The latest discovery is a remnant of one of the rathskellers that thrived under the Boardwalk in the 1940s and ’50s. The menu for the long-lost bar was found on a basement [...]

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Lost Delights of Coney Island: Frozen Custard

Posted in art, Food, Photography, tagged etching, frozen custard, ice cream, Kohr's Frozen Custard, Reginald Marsh on January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »

When Reginald Marsh photographed Coney Island as the subject for his artwork in the late 1930s and the ’40s, one could still buy frozen custard for a nickel. The dessert made its debut in 1919 when the Kohr brothers, Archie and Elton, opened a stand on the Coney Island Boardwalk. The nickel treat was a [...]

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