From Brooklyn Eagle By Gabriele Holtermann Emotions ran high as supporters and opponents of the proposed The Coney Casino and ...

Almost a century before the boardwalk opened along the Atlantic Ocean, Coney Island was on its way to becoming the nation’s most popular pleasure ground. In 1824 the Coney Island House was established ...

While Eastern Parkway stopped short of its intended terminus, Ocean Parkway was built as Olmsted and Vaux envisioned, stretching five and a half miles from Prospect Park to Brooklyn’s beaches at Coney ...

One of the most famous thoroughfares in the city, the country, or maybe even the world, Ocean Drive is characterized ... can take the kids over to Watson Island about 4 miles over the McArthur ...

New Year's Day at Coney Island came with its traditional icy splash as an estimated 4,000 brave souls ventured into the frigid Atlantic. With temperatures of the ocean water hovering just under 40 ...

Roughly 4,000 people decided to jump into the icy Atlantic Ocean water for what’s been ... roughly 39 degrees It’s all for the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club’s New Year’s Day Polar ...