Coney Island was formerly an actual island, separated from greater Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, and was the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands. A large section of the creek was filled in the 1920s and 1930s, turning the island into a peninsula.

Coney Island had a slow evolution in the late 1800s, followed by a sudden flourish between 1895 and 1905. Indeed, so dramatic was the explosion that it is tempting to think of Coney Island as a...

2025年1月25日 · Coney Island, amusement and residential area in the southern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York, U.S., fronting the Atlantic Ocean. Formerly an island, it was known to Dutch settlers as Konijn Eiland (“Rabbit Island”), which …

Coney Island transformed rapidly during the 1870s, shortly after the Civil War. New railroads brought visitors in far greater numbers than ever before, increasing the demand for hotels, restaurants and entertainment.

2021年6月3日 · Coney Island is for New York natives and tourists alike a day-tripper’s paradise, even just for the sake of soaking up the nostalgia. Possessing an unlikely and dazzling history, it’s an integral part of Brooklyn’s identity as well as a national treasure.

By 1905, the term ‘Coney Island’ was largely synonymous with West Brighton and its amusement parks, an association that still endures to this day. Use these maps to follow the story below. Coney Island’s First Railroad: Gunther’s ‘Dummy Line’ to West Brighton (1862)

2020年6月25日 · The Coney Island History Project, founded in 2004, is a not-for-profit organization that aims to increase awareness of Coney Island's legendary and colorful past and to encourage appreciation of the Coney Island neighborhood of today.

There is considerable evidence, however, that the name Coney Island came into use in the first half of the 19th century, after a ferry service was instituted to carry passengers across...

Coney Island as a resort began in the 1840s when a ferry dock, a dance pavilion, and a primitive hotel opened at the western end of the island, which became known as Norton's Point.

When Henry Hudson first sighted the beach at Coney Island in early September 1609, the land was nothing more than desolate sand dunes, clam beds and wind blown scrub that stretched for five miles along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.