Coney Island News

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As our good friend, Rubys Host, brings us, fences are going back up on the Coney Island Boardwalk from the Stillwell Bathhouse to Gregory & Paul's . They have even snug a fence in the sand and have removed most of the benches.

O f all the great pizza rivalries-Patsy vs. Patsy's , Ray's vs. Ray's , Mangieri vs.

Downtown Democratic powerbroker Steve Cohn had his annual pre-Election Day breakfast at Junior's, so we caught up with all the local poobahs to get their predictions about Tuesday's mayoral election.

Head to almost any amusement park, carnival, zoo, fair, or boardwalk and you'll find one.

Clean sweep for Bill Thompson in the mayor's race; editors are split among Katz, Liu, Yassky for comptroller; DeBlasio, Gioia and Siegel for public advocate.

Long gone is the good old Astroland Amusement Park of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber raves over early 20th-century Coney Island, historic setting for his 'Phantom' sequel.

When you've been knighted by the queen of England , it apparently doesn't give you any class.

The NYPD took down three Coney Island drug gangs Thursday, collaring 50 people on drug charges, including 18 who sold to undercover cops during a three-month sting, cops said.

A Brooklyn man has been arrested on DWI charges after an accident that killed one man, and left another injured.

The Brooklyn Lyceum will host "Toxi City: Brooklyn's Brownfields", an exhibit of Robin Michals' photographs, from Sunday, October 25 through November 8, at 227 4th Avenue in Park Slope .

This is a story of a high school ring that belonged to a girl from New Jersey, disappeared 40 years ago on Coney Island, somehow landed in Spring Valley, was discovered by a Chicago man, and finally ended up with its rightful owner in Texas.

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A high school ring has been returned to a Texas woman who lost it 40 years ago. Lena Mae Thompson's date had dropped the Ewing High School class ring on Coney Island in 1969.

In the 21 seasons behind the microphone, John Sterling has developed an unmistakable brand of broadcasting as the Yankees radio play-by-play man.

On Thursday, news broke that the setting for Phantom: Love Never Dies , a kinda-sorta sequel to Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber , will be set in none other than Coney Island .

Renzetti in London Picture a Canadian masked misfit roaming Coney Island British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, left, stands with Iranian-born Canadian Ramin Karimloo, right, who plays the Phantom, and Sierra Boggess from U.S., who plays Christine Daae, as they promote his new production "Love Never Dies" at a theater in London, Thursday Oct.

The microbrew movement has brought a lot of shtick to beer, from the Bostonian use of "wicked" for Pete's Wicked Ales to the Mormon-joshing of Wasatch Polygamy Porter.