Originally conceived as a luxury getaway
for rich Manhattanites, Brooklyn's Coney
Island became the New York City Everyman's 
beach starting in the 1920s.

Today, the place is often referred to with
nostalgia -- after all, back in the 1930s and
40s, more than a million would spend the
day, ingesting a whirl of unbelievable sights,
human and otherwise, on the sand, arcades,
boardwalk, and legendary rides.

Yet for hundreds of thousands of New
Yorkers, "Coney" is still the place to be.

(2003-4)

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