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Posts Tagged ‘Jones Walk’

The Dancing Doll “Miss Coney Island” Speaks

Posted in Amusement Game, amusement park, Artifacts, tagged , , , , , on April 27, 2012 | 6 Comments »

After 14 years on Jones Walk, the windows featuring the life-size dancing doll “Miss Coney Island” and the miniature animated rides of “Coney Island Always” have moved to West 12th Street along with Skin the Wire and other whimsical games. Mechanical wonders like Chuckles the Clown and dancing cats can be found there as well. [...]

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Zito’s Sandwich Shoppe Eyes Spot in New Coney Island

Posted in Food, tagged , , , , , , , on April 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »

On Sunday Zito’s Sandwich Shoppe tweeted to their followers that they were “working on a Coney Island Luna Park collaboration-more to come-looking to be part of the New Coney Island.” When we phoned to get the scoop, co-owner Marcello Bucca confirmed it was true but declined to say more until the lease is signed. ATZ [...]

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Men in Black 3 Rescues Coney Island’s Oldest Building

Posted in film, tagged , , , , on April 10, 2011 | 7 Comments »

We’re singing “Hooray for Hollywood, that phony super Coney Hollywood”! Not only is Men in Black 3 filming in Coney from May 2 through 6, they’ve leased Coney Island’s oldest building, the Grashorn, from Thor Equities and rescued it from oblivion. A construction crew is already fixing up the gutted interior of the building located [...]

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