Coney Island

18 Jul 2009

FREE: Siren Festival on Coney Island

Few places in New York are as mythic and storied as Coney Island. From the Wonder Wheel to the Cyclone, to Nathan’s to the the beach itself, the place is unlike any other in the city and that’s only one reason why you should check out today’s Siren Festival. Produced

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04 Jul 2009

"We Will Not Go Quietly Into the Night!"

There a few things going on in NYC today, Conor Oberst and Jenny Lewis at battery Park PS 1’s first installment of “Warm Up” and of course the annual opportunity to gather at the beach on Coney Island and watch sodium enthusiasts race against time to stuff themselves with hot

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30 May 2009

Tug Of War on Coney Island

I’m on my Saturday morning death bed, fighting pyloric valve spasms wrestling with last night’s beer fumes that are trying to escape to the light of day.  Keeping me company are memories of guys drinking from pitchers of Yeungling sideways and chugging roided car-bombs, appropriately called “Truck Bombs” in a

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04 Apr 2009

FREE (death?) Ride on the Cyclone!

There a thousands of iconic photos of Coney Island from its epic reign through its Post-War deterioration into a dere-lict “my balls” trashy-ass scene, so I applied rigorous standards and ended up with this one. Coincidentally, there are breasts. I hope the tasteful,  impactful photo is titillating enough (excuse the

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