Worker laying slurry pipe for beach filling operations on Beach 4 with a bulldozer. In 1995 the Army Corps of Engineers began large scale sand replenishment along the length of the publicly-owned Coney Island beach. The privately owned Sea Gate...
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Photograph copyright Abe Feinstein
Stillwell Avenue Subway Station entrance, under construction
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Early spring view of the Boardwalk near Stillwell Avenue, looking east towards Astroland and the Brightwater Towers. Shaw's (later Ruby's) Bar, Playland (later the Boardwalk home of Coney Island, USA), Cook's Baths and a Kentucky Fried Chicken store...
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Looking south from Surf Avenue.
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Interior of Sea Gate Garage, Mermaid Ave. and West 37th St.
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Looking north east from Boardwalk to the newly built Half Moon Hotel. In the foreground McLochlin's West End baths (a bathhouse).
"The one structure that defined the New Coney Island more than anything elese was the Half Moon Hotel... Described as...
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Photograph copyright Abe Feinstein
Stillwell Avenue Subway Station Front
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Looking south-east from Surf Avenue.
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Photograph by © Charles Denson
Jimmy McCullough, former owner of the B&B Carousell, poses with his wife and daughters in front of the historic ride. Built in 1919 at the Coney Island factory of William Mangels, the B&B Carousell was the...
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