One of the saddest days of Charles Denson’s life took place when he was a boy growing up in Coney Island and he watched through a fence as bulldozers tore down the last of the rides in Steeplechase ...

I’ve written a few articles about the development of Coney Island, from the Golden Age of the posh resort hotels, to the rise and fall of the great amusement parks, such as Dreamland and Steeplechase ...

Along with iconic New York sites like Times Square and the Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, a peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Brooklyn, is a name known around the world. The origins of its name ...

When Charles Denson heard the first rumors that Disney was coming to Coney Island, back in 1998, he thought it was high time to start preserving local history. An art director and photographer, Denson ...

The story: When I first started collecting books about Brooklyn, it used to annoy me no end that much of my reading and research seemed to take the position that you got off the Brooklyn Bridge and ...

Step right up! For generations, Coney Island, New York, has been the ultimate summer escape, drawing crowds from across the globe. Coney Island is actually made from two parks: Deno's Wonder Amusement ...

After years of stalled plans and scrapped projects, the Coney Island ferry effort is moving forward once again — this time with a research buoy off Steeplechase Pier. The buoy will collect vital data ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) — As ...