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Photo Album: Looking Back at Coney Island’s Opening Day

Posted in amusement park, Events, Photo Album, Photography, tagged Blessing of the Rides, Bruce Handy, Cyclone, Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, Luna Park, OPening Day, Wonder Wheel on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Coney Island’s traditional Opening Day is Palm Sunday, which also happens to be April 1st this year. We’re celebrating the occasion with a look back at favorite photos of Opening Day beginning with 2008. In that year, Palm Sunday fell early–on March 28th–and State Senator Diane Savino gamely joined the hula-hooping party on West 10th [...]

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Amusing the Zillion’s Fave 11 Posts of 2011 – Part 1

Posted in Favorites, Photography, video, tagged cat, Charles Denson, Coney Island, Cyclone, Jim McDonnell, The Whip, William F Mangels on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

ATZ’s “Top 10 Coney Island News Stories of 2011″ was based on page views, but our fave posts didn’t make the cut. “Sometimes really great posts fall through the cracks, are too esoteric to be popular, or at least deserve another visit,” writes blogger Visualingual, whose exquisite “Looking Back: Best VL Posts of 2010,” (and [...]

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Photo of the Day: Across the Street from the Cyclone

Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged Coney Island, Cyclone, Photography, reflections on August 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »

This surreal window display is across the street from the Coney Island Cyclone. Located on the north side of Surf Avenue, where the original Luna Park was in business until 1944, the shop is sandwiched between furniture stores that are forever having going out of business sales. If the days of furniture stores named after [...]

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