CONEY ISLAND — CONEY ISLAND CIVIC AND FAITH LEADER CONNIE JONES was publicly honored on Tuesday, May 13 as the 2025 Woman of Distinction for State Senate District 23. This prestigious ...

Luna Park at Coney Island officially opened for the season Saturday. The amusement park’s reopening coincided with unseasonably warm weather, with sunny skies and highs near 80. An egg cream ...

The Greenpoint bar — known for its free pool, cheap drinks and newly-retooled downstairs restaurant, Franklin Frites — is giving Coney Island a run for its money. Though Joey Chestnut won’t ...

The mother of the three children who drowned in Coney Island on Monday has been charged ... nearby streets and the woman’s apartment. An additional 911 call was made at 3:13 a.m., which directed ...

No alcohol on Scott’s Island; the heat up toward Prohibition had begun in earnest. The Daily Star called it “our Luna Park,” referring to the popular park that had opened on Coney Island ...

One 1929 Forward article claimed that “a Coney Island apartment has more beds per square foot than any other community in the world.” In July 1948 The Forward advertised a lovely bakery on ...

Your health is important, especially the choices you make as you get older. At Grand Island YMCA, a new program launches in April to connect its members with the tools needed for healthy living an ...

Mohammad Choudhary and Boysin Lorick say they’re at their wits end in a years-long saga over the three investment homes they bought for about $1.3 million on Neptune Avenue in Coney Island in ...

BROOKLYN — It’s the first perfect Friday of the year at Coney Island, shorts weather, with the wind coming off the Atlantic more a whisper than a yell. Batting practice at Maimonides Park is ...

An underwater cable from the mainland makes it possible for the first telephone to be installed on Coney Island in Sligo Bay. In Sligo, a submarine telephone link from the mainland to Coney Island ...

Grand Island native Judy Ziola has returned home as the new chief executive officer of the YMCA. Ziola began her new duties on Dec. 1 after serving as associate executive director of the Whatcom ...