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Photo of the Day: Mermaid Avenue at Dusk

Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged Coney Island, Mermaid Avenue, Prince of Mermaid Avenue on June 30, 2011| 1 Comment »

Mermaid Avenue at West 28th Street, Coney Island. June 25, 2011. Photo © Tricia Vita/me-myself-i

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 of kids in the summer program if they were mermaids.

The avenue of neighborhood shops, churches and residences is just one block north of the Coney Island amusement area’s main drag, Surf Avenue. So close, yet a world away. At dusk we spotted this poster for “A Coney Good Time” at the bus stop at West 28th Street.

While there may not be any mermaids on Mermaid Avenue, there once was a prince: The documentary “The Prince of Mermaid Avenue” is about Jimmy Prince, who retired after 60 years at Mermaid Avenue’s Major Market. Charles Denson’s film is screening again today, June 30, at 2 pm at the Coney Island Library, 1901 Mermaid Avenue at West 18th Street.

Photo of the Day: Mango Vendor in Coney Island

Posted in Food, Photo of the Day, tagged Coney Island, Photography, street vendor on June 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Mango Vendor in Coney Island. May 29, 2011. Photo © Tricia Vita/me-myself-i via flickr

Lunchtime in Coney Island! What could be better than a mango carved into a flower on a hot summer’s day?

Cat Photo of the Day: Target the Coney Island Cat at Work

Posted in Animals, Photo of the Day, tagged cat, Coney Island, Coney Island Arcade, Photography, Target the Cat on May 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Nobody makes calling in customers look easier than Target, the world-famous Coney Island Cat. All he has to do is sit in his spot on the counter of Jimmy’s Balloon Dart. Some girls can’t walk by without stopping to pet him and ask his name. Next thing you know they’re busting balloons and winning prizes.

When Target the Cat is not working, he likes to patrol the Bowery or hang out across the way at Deno’s Super Shot. Of course, Target and his owner, Manny Cohen of Coney Island Arcade, plan to ride the Wonder Wheel at the Coney Island park’s first annual Pet Day on June 11. The cat declined to enter the pet costume contest though. “He’s natural, ” Manny says.