While it wasn't quite finished, Coney Island's Luna Park opened for business this past weekend -- and business was brisk. Unfortunately the summer fu...
Mayor Bloomberg's comments on a new bill being considered by the City Council are not just disingenuous, they're also flat out wrong.
Judged by some compromised standards, Love Never Dies is not the metaphorical crashing chandelier it's reputed to be.
From the boardwalk to your living room. A Red Hook workshop is using planks from the iconic Coney Island Boardwalk to build a new line of furniture. ...
UPDATE: Turns out the tale of the 140-year-old hot dog was a hoax. ****** Would you eat this? A 140-year-old hot dog was recently found undernea...
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - State-of-the-art new rides including a roller coaster and a pendulum will open this summer at Coney Island to jump-start...
NEW YORK — The historic and mostly dormant Coney Island amusement park district in New York City will be revived by next summer with some new at...
Kryssy Kocktail was a loner who dreamed of running away from her troubled family to join the circus. Now she eats fire, lays on a bed of nails and sit...
Sounds in all the trees! The wintry wind in the old park. This is the earth's version of a fantastic New York neighborhood. The back and forth up i...
NEW YORK — The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire t...
People are still moving to New York -- despite the recession -- and hundreds of thousands of new housing units will need to be built before supply catches up with demand.
The F train is slower, dirtier and less reliable than other lines in the subway system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority finally admitted in ...
Coney Island's brassy bell is back. Divers pulled the 500-pound artifact from the murky waters off Coney Island Thursday 98 years after it toppled in...
The freak show must go on. Jeanine Pirro, the former Westchester County district attorney-turned-TV judge, has gotten her paws on the case of the fiv...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Coney Island rezoning plan, currently before the City Council, would irrevocably diminish the historic amusement district, blotting out its rich past and creating a blank canvas for redevelopment.
Update 7/24: Lily the dog no longer has five legs. From the Daily News: The owner of a five-legged puppy outfoxed a Coney Island sideshow - gett...
The Wonder Wheel is an 89-year-old carnival amusement that commands the local skyline on Coney Island....
For the first time ever, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have set up their big top on the Coney Island boardwalk!...
This weekend some of the world's greatest beach volleyball players can be seen at the AVP Crocs Slam Lumber Liquidators Coney Island Open.
The City Council may not approve the Coney Island Redevelopment Plan. At Wednesday's public hearing, Council members had many questions and concerns....
If you're planning a cookout for this most patriotic of days, here's an opportunity to celebrate the American dream. Because hot dog culture is American history.
The Brooklyn we drove through back then from our apartment in Sunset Park to the theater, around the corner from my mother's family on 17th Street, was a diorama of post-war, working class urban life.
Lizzy Grant: I like things that go fast, things with bright colors, things that taste good. At Coney Island, you can get a Coca Cola, ride the roller coaster, and watch everybody.
