In 1925, the Black real estate magnate Solomon Riley was ready to open an amusement park on Hart Island, the site of a prison and potter’s field. The city shut it down.

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) -- One of the best-known waterfront promenades in the world is getting special status in New York City. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on ...

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The Zoning Subcommittee and Land Use Committee of the City Council voted to approve the city's plan for the redevelopment of Coney Island. The committee agreed to important modifications regarding ...

World's First Hot Dog, running at the 36th street theater, audiences travel back to 19th-century Coney Island as Charles Feltman invents what would become an American icon.

Nathan's Famous, which opened as a 5-cent hot dog stand in Coney Island, Brooklyn more than a century ago, has been sold to packaged meat giant Smithfield Foods in an all-cash $450 million deal, the ...