This is an interesting story and not what you'd expect."NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 396 views | 9 recommendations | 6 comments
Artist Steve Powers is causing quite the stir. He recently opened “The Waterboarding Thrill Ride” in the Coney Island arcade. It’s not an actual ride, but an exhibit that uses robots to simulate...
created by poolparty | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 249 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" Updated Sunday, July 27th 2008, 12:37 AM Fevelo for News Lifeguards searched the waterline along Coney Island shore to find 10-year-old Akira Johnson. Fevelo for News Lifeguards were able to pull...
BROOKLYN NEW YORK- July 19, Coney Island - The Siren Music festival (http://siren.villagevoice.com/siren/) kicked off Saturday in celebration of music giving the Coney Island boardwalk a jolt of local tourism for...
created by JTshockley | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 312 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
The annual Mermaid Parade kicked off in Coney Island, New York today, but one person will be making a political statement and will be undertaking a hunger strike in protest to the proposed changes to the...
created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 596 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
"NEW YORK — What is it about Coney Island Avenue?
That's what Brooklyn College sociologist Jerry Krase wonders as he rides the B68 bus along this 5-mile commercial strip, which is populated at various stops by pockets of West Indians, Latinos, Pakistanis, Indians, Orthodox...
created by urbano411 | 2 years ago 266 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Call me an incorrigible optimist, but I've always thought the Thor-Equities-Will-Destroy-Coney-Island trope was a bit too cut-and-dried good vs. evil. Now the NY Post is reporting that the city may buy Thor's land...
created by Brian A Kennedy | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 206 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This is really dreadful and disappointing. I adore Coney Island and will be very sad to see the old place torn up and replaced by a "swanky Vegas-style hotel and glitzy indoor attractions". I suppose all of these...
created by kate | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 445 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments