Coney Island
About Coney Island
Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to the north and includes the subsection of Sea Gate on its west. More broadly, the Coney Island peninsula consists of Coney Island proper, Sea Gate, Brighton Beach, and Manhattan Beach. This was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on the southern shore of Long Island, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill.
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The first ever escalator was in Coney Island. It was just a ride — 75,000 people rode it in the first two weeks, this amazing ride of standing on an escalator.
from No Such Thing As A Swear Word On The Moon, 2014-04-25 at 00:25:54 · read transcript
Other times Coney Island came up
There was one of those in Coney Island as well. We talked about Coney Island the other week. There was one that was in Coney Island in 1895. This one in the international exhibition in 1906, it went into Lake Victoria in Christchurch was the place it ended up. It was this exhibition was so popular that 1,967,682 people visited it at a time when the whole population of New Zealand was 975,000.
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I was reading about in America, Coney Island Whitefish in New York. What would that be? Do you think Coney Island Whitefish? OK. Coney Island, there was a big sort of fun fair there. Lots of like you won't get it from that really. It's used condoms is what they would call the Coney Island Whitefish. Disco Rice. OK, so Disco is a fun place as well.
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The really nice thing is that some of these babies will still be alive today. We're talking about this as though it's a historical thing. In 2015, NPR in the USA, they interviewed a lady who was about 94 years old at the time called Lucille Horn. and she had been one of the Coney Island babies born in 1920. You say, Dan, her father had had no other option.
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