On Friday night after a visit to Luna Park’s Nights of Horror, we made our way to Coney Island USA for the first Creepshow at the Freakshow of the season. Started by CIUSA artistic director Dick Zigun in 1998, the annual Halloween event takes the audience on a haunted tour of the 1917 Childs Restaurant [...]
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Halloween In Coney Island: Behind the Scenes at Creep Show at the Freak Show
Posted in amusement park, Events, tagged Coney Island, Coney Island USA, Creepshow, freak show, Halloween, Haunted House, Kate Dale, Marie Roberts on October 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Can You Help Identify this Window into Coney Island’s Past?
Posted in Artifacts, history, tagged antique window, Charles Feltman, Coney Island USA, Feltman's on August 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
On Saturday we chatted with Luke Stangarone in front of Coney Island USA, where he was cleaning a stained glass window, one of two which the Sheepshead Bay resident is donating to the Coney Island Museum. Rescued from three feet of mud in a Park Slope basement, the windows originally came from Coney Island’s Feltman’s [...]
Luna Park NYC Halloween Gig for Famed Haunted House Creator
Posted in Events, tagged Coney Island, Coney Island USA, Dick Zigun, Halloween, Haunted House, Kate Dale, Luna Park, Timothy Haskell on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Timothy Haskell, the Off-Broadway theater director whose annual Nightmare Haunted House in NoHo bills itself as New York’s Most Horrifying Haunted House is coming to Coney Island for Halloween. On August 11, Haskell tweeted: “got the gig to turn Luna Park in Coney Island into a Halloween wonderland. Opens October 15th. Pretty cool.” Yesterday, Haskell [...]
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