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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A spectator on Surf Avenue wears a huge tableau on his head, representing Coney Island's Elephant Hotel. The hotel, known as the Elephantine Colossus, was a tourist attraction on Coney Island from 1885 until it burned down in 1896.
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  • Details on the terra cotta decoration on the former Childs Restaurant on the Coney Island boardwalk, with its nautically themed accents by Perth Amboy’s Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Hiron and Dennison designed it to feed the crowds coming to Coney Island. Completed in 1923, the restaurant closed in 1952. The building was put to other uses, and was vacant in the early 2010s. It’s since been restored, and is now a restaurant again, as well as part of the Ford Amphitheater.
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  • The former Childs Restaurant on the Coney Island boardwalk, with its nautically themed terra cotta accents by Perth Amboy’s Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Hiron and Dennison designed it to feed the crowds coming to Coney Island. Completed in 1923, the restaurant closed in 1952. The building was put to other uses, and was vacant in the early 2010s. It’s since been restored, and is now a restaurant again, as well as part of the Ford Amphitheater.
    EJL 210731 1114.jpg
  • Details on the terra cotta decoration on the former Childs Restaurant on the Coney Island boardwalk, with its nautically themed accents by Perth Amboy’s Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Hiron and Dennison designed it to feed the crowds coming to Coney Island. Completed in 1923, the restaurant closed in 1952. The building was put to other uses, and was vacant in the early 2010s. It’s since been restored, and is now a restaurant again, as well as part of the Ford Amphitheater.
    EJL 210731 1125.jpg
  • Details on the terra cotta decoration on the former Childs Restaurant on the Coney Island boardwalk, with its nautically themed accents by Perth Amboy’s Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Hiron and Dennison designed it to feed the crowds coming to Coney Island. Completed in 1923, the restaurant closed in 1952. The building was put to other uses, and was vacant in the early 2010s. It’s since been restored, and is now a restaurant again, as well as part of the Ford Amphitheater.
    EJL 210731 1123.jpg
  • Details on the terra cotta decoration on the former Childs Restaurant on the Coney Island boardwalk, with its nautically themed accents by Perth Amboy’s Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Hiron and Dennison designed it to feed the crowds coming to Coney Island. Completed in 1923, the restaurant closed in 1952. The building was put to other uses, and was vacant in the early 2010s. It’s since been restored, and is now a restaurant again, as well as part of the Ford Amphitheater.
    EJL 210731 1122.jpg
  • The steel tower of the parachute jump at Coney Island, first erected for the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens, and moved to Coney Island in 1941, was decommissioned as an active ride, but is still lit up on some weekend nights.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman dressed as a judge wears a banner reading "Save Roe v. Wade."
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus.A woman in a gold sandcastle costume rushes to register for the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman with a very large nautilus shell headdress.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman in a red and white costume with glitter and scallop shells on Surf Avenue.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman in a costume that looks like she's inside a shark.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman in a costume that looks like a fish's skeleton, and with her face made up as a skull.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A group of mermaids poses for a group photo on Surf Avenue.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman sprays her hair in place prior to the start of the parade.
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  • The craft brewery and beer garden of Coney Island Brewery, in Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team.
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  • The craft brewery and beer garden of Coney Island Brewery, in Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team.
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  • The Coney Island Museum, with its exhibits and freak show, on the corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, has a recorded barker’s announcement for the freak show on W. 12th. The museum entrance is through the Freak Bar on Surf Avenue.
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  • The Coney Island Museum, with its exhibits and freak show, on the corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, has a recorded barker’s announcement for the freak show on W. 12th. The museum entrance is through the Freak Bar on Surf Avenue.
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  • The Coney Island Museum, with its exhibits and freak show, on the corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, has a recorded barker’s announcement for the freak show on W. 12th. The museum entrance is through the Freak Bar on Surf Avenue.
    EJL 210731 1020.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A man earing a bright red jacket and a pirate's tricorn waits to watch the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman with rows of shark's teeth and a huge headdress of dead fish and seaweed.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A man dressed as a pirate with a newspaper tricorn accompanies a man in a deep-sea diver's helmet near Nathan's.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. Three men and a woman in prate costumes on Surf Avenue prior to the strart of the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman with an elaborate green, blue, and purpole costume with a tall headdress rushes to the parade registration area.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A tattooed woman with red and orange locks and a scallop-shell bra rushes along Surf Avenue prior to the start of the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. On Surf Avenue, a woman with scallop shell earrings wears a black and red hat with a skull.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A woman in gold sequins wears an ornate COVID mask prior to the start of the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus.A woman uwith black lipstick nder a rainbow umbrella.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus.A colorful parade mask on the sidewalk in the parade prep area.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. A man covered in crucifxes, medals, and numerous insignia smokes a cigar prior to the start of the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus.A colorful parade mask on the sidewalk in the parade prep area.
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  • The craft brewery and beer garden of Coney Island Brewery, in Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team.
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  • The storefront of the Coney Island History Project.
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  • The Coney Island Museum, with its exhibits and freak show, on the corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, has a recorded barker’s announcement for the freak show on W. 12th. The museum entrance is through the Freak Bar on Surf Avenue.
    EJL 210731 1030.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY – 18 June 2022. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade returned to the street after a COVID hiatus. Two women, one dressed as a mermaid, the other as a sailor, prior to the start of the parade.
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  • The elaborate main entrance to Coney Island’s Luna Park on Surf Avenue.
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  • The Astroland Rocket at Coney Island was launched in 1962 as a simulator space ride, one of the first. It was decommissioned and removed in the 1970s, but has since returned as a static remnant of its past.
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  • The Phoenix roller coaster at Deno’s Wonder Wheel amusement park in Coney Island, a steel-framed roller coaster in which riders sit in chairs suspended from an overhead track.
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  • The Phoenix roller coaster at Deno’s Wonder Wheel amusement park in Coney Island, a steel-framed roller coaster in which riders sit in chairs suspended from an overhead track.
    EJL 210731 1159.jpg
  • Spook-a-Rama, a dark ride in the Deno’s Wonder heel amusement park in Coney Island. First opened in 1955, and renovated and shorted in 2013, it’s full of spooks, zombies, and similar horrors designed to frighten riders.
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  • Ruby’s Barr & Grill, on the Coney Island boardwalk has been open since 1972, and occupies the same space as a bar that opened in 1934. Ruby’s preserved parts of the original wooden boardwalk inside, where you can walk under it.
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  • Coney Island’s B&B Carousel, with its hand carved wooden horses built in 1906 and carefully restored, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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  • Coney Island’s B&B Carousel, with its hand carved wooden horses built in 1906 and carefully restored, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
    EJL 210731 1095.jpg
  • Coney Island’s Thunderbolt roller coaster, a steel roller coaster with a 90-degree drop and an inversion loop.
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  • The Stillwell Avenue subway station in Coney Island, terminus of the D, F, N, and Q trains. The pyramid on the roof reflects structures in the former Steeplechase Park, and the BMT tiles on the facade are from the original station.
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  • A couple dancing on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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  • Relaxing in style on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
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  • A tattoed man on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
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  • One of three sections of the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, a memorial to the first responders from Brooklyn who died on 9/11.
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  • One of three sections of the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, a memorial to the first responders from Brooklyn who died on 9/11.
    EJL 210824 1016.jpg
  • A sidewalk sign outside the Freak Bar of Surf avenue, both a bar and an entrance to the Coney Island Museum .
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  • The New York Aquarium on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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  • The iconic Cyclone at Coney Island’s Luna Park, one of the oldest operating wooden roller coasters. The ride is nearly a half mile long and has an initial drop of 85 feet.
    EJL 210731 1191.jpg
  • Spook-a-Rama, a dark ride in the Deno’s Wonder heel amusement park in Coney Island. First opened in 1955, and renovated and shorted in 2013, it’s full of spooks, zombies, and similar horrors designed to frighten riders.
    EJL 210731 1138.jpg
  • Deno’s Wonder Wheel, an eccentric Ferris wheel built in 1920, and a Coney Island icon. Next to it is the Phoenix roller coaster, newly erected in 2021.
    EJL 210731 1135.jpg
  • Hearts by the street artist Hektad on an exterior fence of the Coney Island Art Walls.
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  • Coney Island’s B&B Carousel, with its hand carved wooden horses built in 1906 and carefully restored, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
    EJL 210731 1105.jpg
  • Coney Island’s B&B Carousel, with its hand carved wooden horses built in 1906 and carefully restored, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
    EJL 210731 1102.jpg
  • Coney Island’s B&B Carousel, with its hand carved wooden horses built in 1906 and carefully restored, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
    EJL 210731 1100.jpg
  • Coney Island’s Thunderbolt roller coaster, a steel roller coaster with a 90-degree drop and an inversion loop.
    EJL 210731 1087.jpg
  • The Stillwell Avenue subway station in Coney Island, terminus of the D, F, N, and Q trains. The pyramid on the roof reflects structures in the former Steeplechase Park, and the BMT tiles on the facade are from the original station.
    EJL 210731 1001.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 14 June 2020. People wait to be served outside Ruby's Bar & Grill on the Coney Island boardwalk, keeping 6 feet of distance between them. A group of 3 people stands close together nearby.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 14 June 2020. Two people take photographs through the security gating at Lunas Park on the Coney Island boardwalk. The amusement park is closed as a result of COVID-19.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 14 June 2020. A sign reading "keep thsi far apart" and indicating 6 feet of social distance on the beach at Coney Island reminds people to keep well apart from each other. At this time the beach is still closed to swimming.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 14 June 2020. The Nathan's hot dog outlet on the Coney Island boardwalk has its picnic tables covered in netting to prevent people from sitting down next to each other and maintaining social distancing under the COVID-19 regulations.
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  • A boardwalk rolling chair made by the Ocean Rollling Chair Co. in the Coney Island Museum.
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  • A girl getting prepared for photographs at her quinceañera celebration on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
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  • A girl getting prepared for photographs at her quinceañera celebration on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
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  • A girl getting prepared for photographs at her quinceañera celebration on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
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  • Dancers on the boardwalk at Coney Island.
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  • The Wonder Wheel at Coney Island's Luna Park at night.
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  • One of three sections of the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, a memorial to the first responders from Brooklyn who died on 9/11.
    EJL 210824 1017.jpg
  • The elaborate main entrance to Coney Island’s Luna Park on Surf Avenue.
    EJL 210731 1186.jpg
  • Spook-a-Rama, a dark ride in the Deno’s Wonder heel amusement park in Coney Island. First opened in 1955, and renovated and shorted in 2013, it’s full of spooks, zombies, and similar horrors designed to frighten riders.
    EJL 210731 1151.jpg
  • Coney Island’s B&B Carousel, with its hand carved wooden horses, was built in 1906 and carefully restored using original techniques and materials, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
    EJL 210731 1091.jpg
  • Coney Island's Eldorado Auto Skooter, a bumper car ride on Surf Avenue, where you can, as their sign says, bump your ass off.
    EJL 210731 1007.jpg
  • Brooklyn, NY - 14 June 2020. A man suns himself on the Coney Island boardwalk, his mask and gloves hanging from a bench, while two other people sit on a bench some distance away.
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  • An old car from the "Tunnel of Laffs" in the Coney Island Museum.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 17 August 2013. A a man in the crowd on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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  • The Wonder Wheel at Coney Island's Luna Park at night.
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  • A girl with her family and entourage getting laced up for quinceañera photos on the Concey Island boardwalk.
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  • A girl with her family and entourage getting laced up for quinceañera photos on the Concey Island boardwalk.
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  • A girl with her family and entourage getting laced up for quinceañera photos on the Concey Island boardwalk.
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  • A a man in the crowd on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. After participating int eh parade, a woman with cotton candy hat and bra waits to be served at Nathan's Famous.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. Two mermaids with brightly colored hair and scallop-shell bikini tops.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A girl in mermaid skirt rides a skateboard.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. An enthusiasti marcher with bright red hair and a fishbowl on her head.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. Two women, one with a sparkly bikini top, the other with scallop shell pasties.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A woman poses, wearing a scallop-shell bikini top and carrying a huge blue trident.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A young woman in a 1940s-era bathing suit and sailor hat poses under a bright parasol parior to the start of the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016.A man with bright red wig and oddly-patched costume.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A family of brtightly-colored seahorses with a mermaid child in the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A mermaid with aqua hair hands out Pirate's Booty opcorn to the cowd.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A man with streaked makeup and a straw hat parades under a black and yellow umbrella.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A man carries a sign reading "Save a fish eat a pizza."
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A couple covered in fishnet costumes under a jellyfish-like umbrella prior to taking their places in the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. A woman shows off her octopus-like tentacles prior to the start of the parade.
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  • Brooklyn, NY - 18 June 2016. The Naked Cowgirl, oftenfound in Times Square, with a pink seashell bikini top, and carrying her guitar, rusging to take her place in the parade.
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