1. At about high noon we arrived at Coney Island and approached the boardwalk.

2. The druggies had all gone to Coney Island for the day.

3. Let's go to Coney Island, old sport.

4. Coney Island: It is a historic beach and famous amusement park.

5. On New Year's day, New Yorker's join the Coney Island polar plunge and, in Germany, the Berlin “seals” brave their own icy pool.

6. On June 19, the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade hits the New York City area.

7. Brooklyn contains the Botanical Gardens, Coney Island (a beach with an amusement park), and J.F.K. International Airport.

8. A reveler dressed as a mermaid poses for a photo at the 25th annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade in the Brooklyn, New York.

9. Which is why we're weathering the late afternoon heat in his Volvo, motoring to Coney Island.

10. My cosmopolite was named E. Rushmore Coglan, and he will be heard from next summer at Coney Island. He is to establish a new "attraction" there, he informed me, offering kingly diversion.

11. "I sell three or four every single day and then I get one or two back a week, " said Dave Gillie, owner of Gillies Coney Island Restaurant in Genesee Township.

12. Chestnut, of San Jose, California, defeated six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan in the annual event held at New York's Coney Island beach.

13. Renate was greatly annoyed when I said that she must come to Coney Island with me.

14. Funny, after all that running about, this time in New York I did not venture on the Pelham Bay Express, when going into Spanish Harlem, nor seek out a bridge to Coney Island.

15. He wasfacing away as he spoke, toward the store window, with its charmlessview of Coney Island Avenue and the auto-body shops and apartmentbuildings beyond.

16. Fish Out of WaterA reveler dressed as a mermaid poses for a photo at the 25th annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade in the Brooklyn, New York.

17. The 26th Annual Mermaid Parade was held in the Coney Island in New York on June 21, attracting tens of thousands of people.

18. Li Xiaoshu, right, with her summer colleagues at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island on Saturday.

19. In Love Never Dies, set ten years later, he has become "Mr. Y", the mysterious owner of a Coney Island 9)pleasure ground who lures Christine back for a well-paid 10)gig.

20. Finally we find a parking space and walk along the famous Coney Island boardwalk, past Nathan's, the giant yellow hot dog palace, and the old wooden Cyclone roller coaster.

21. The way Marty Markowitz sees it, the rundown nine-acre park where Coney Island and Brighton Beach meet is ripe for a sparkling transformation.

22. A fun fact: In 1916, a hot-dog eating contest started on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City, as a way to test how patriotic new immigrants were!

23. And we just installed a ray on a roof of the Coney Island maintenance shop.

24. George Kramer sat hunched on his stool behindthe counter of the small hardware store on Coney Island Avenue, gazingout the window at the passing traffic.

25. She travelled with the Ringling Brothers Circus and appeared at Coney Island 's Dreamland sideshow.

26. They said they were cognizant of the history of Nathan's at Coney Island, even though a manager confided, “When they first come in, they ask, ‘What's a hot dog?

27. “If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl.

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28. Alter the formula (or ask for ketchup) and you can head right back to Coney Island, pal.

29. In a hallowed New York tradition, even the park’s location has become politically charged: residents say it is in Brighton Beach, and the city says Coney Island.

30. “It’ll be absolutely gorgeous, ” Mr. Markowitz said, and “a really great attraction for the future of Coney Island.”

31. Mr. Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, envisions Asser Levy Park, also known as Seaside Park, as the gateway to a spruced-up amusement complex evoking Coney Island’s splashy past.