CONEY ISLAND SCOPING DOCUMENT

The City has begun the public review process for the new zoning proposal for Coney Island. Click here for details and the scoping document.

Click here for info on how you can help Save Coney Island!

Now that the public scoping meeting is over you can still present your thoughts in writing until July 11th. Mail or email to:

New York City Economic Development Corporation
Attention: Rachel Belsky, Vice-President
110 William Street
New York, New York 10038

rbelsky(at)nycedc.com

Mermaid Parade!

Thanks to all of those who watched and participated in this years parade and ball! See pictures of the 2008 Parade here.

2008 Category Winners have been posted.

The Coney Island USA Freak Bar and Gift Shop
Coming soon to an amusement area near you!

Architectural Design by Philip Tusa, rendering by William Ranwell and Fred Kahl

* It's a shining beacon on West 12th Street and Surf Avenue!
* It's the first step towards the new, year-round Coney Island!
* It's the new and improved Freak Bar and Coney Island USA Gift Shop!

Don't look now, but it won't be long before you can listen to music on our vintage jukebox and quaff Coney Island Lager on tap - in the space formerly occupied by the US Army! You'll browse through the new and improved gift shop in the former Dreamland Artists Club! And do it Wednesday through Sunday all year round!

Lovingly designed by Architect Philip Tusa, our expansion onto Surf Ave will be sure to please and amaze. This May, all the fun begins as we usher in the New Coney Island! Join us!

NEW!! Check out our Construction Blog!

sideshows by the seashore
Welcome, friends, to the all new and improved last summer of Coney Island!! The Sequel, for your entertainment!

Photo by Laure Leber

Come on down this summer and witness the theatrical experience that started it all. It's a tradition that can't be stopped! Thrill to the secrets of the last 10-in-1 circus sideshow in the nation! Witness Donny Vomit performing death defying acts of bravery! See Angelica do the stunning fire dance with your own eyes! Sigh as Heather Holliday, the world's cutest female sword swallower performs her miraculous act. You'll be mesmerized by Serpentina the Snake Charmer awed by our Twisted Shockmeister, Scott Baker and introducing our newest cast members BLACK SCORPION and NICK KNACK.

They're all real and they are all alive. Only in Coney Island!

Open Wednesdays - Friday, 2pm-8pm, weather permitting! Saturday and Sunday, 1pm-9pm, weather permitting!
$7.50 for adults, $5 for children under 12
Sideshows by the Seashore
Corner of Surf and West 12th Street

bURLESQUE at the beach
Thursday, JuLY 3RD, 10pm, $10
Albert Cadabra & Gal Friday's The Skin & Scullduggery Show

Give your Fourth of July some BANG with the best in Maniacal Magic, Scintillating Sideshow, Bodacious Balloon Action, and Boobs Boobs Boobs!!

Featuring:
Gal Friday, the Five-Alarm Fire of Burlesque
Ruby the Wonder Dog, cute, cuddly, and show-stopping
Mistress B, the sexy latex lass
Jelly Boy the Clown, the clown with the upside down frown... turned upside down!
Jo Boobs, head mistress of the NY School of Burlesque
Special Duet by: The Fires Down Below
Albert Cadabra, The Great Deceiver and Host Extraordinaire

"Don't miss out on the raunchy raffle and the sexy's on the beach! Forget the firecrackers and let us pop your cherry bombs!"

Sideshows By The Seashore
Corner of Surf and West 12th Street

burlesque at the beach
Friday, JuLY 4th

Burlesque at the Beach takes the night off to celebrate our nations independence! Happy 4th of July!

VIEW 2008 Burlesque Summer Schedule-Click Here!

CONEY ISLAND FILM SOCIETY
Saturday, July 5th, 8:30pm - Freaks

Dir. Tod Browning, 1932. Director Tod Browning cast authentic circus folk (many who performed at Coney Island), not actors, in this Greek tragedy about sideshow "freaks." Normal-sized trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) marries diminutive Hans (Harry Earles) with plans to poison him, take his inheritance and marry the brute Hercules (Henry Victor). When the freaks uncover Cleopatra's scheme and Hercules forces himself on an innocent girl, they gang up on the two miscreants. Wallace Ford also stars.

Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave.
between Stillwell Ave. and West 12th Street

Tickets $5, $3 for Film Society members. Doors open at 8pm Pre-show at 8:15pm featuring classic drive in trailers, shorts, old commercials and more. Films start at 8:30pm. Free Popcorn!!

To become a Film Society member, join at our Coney Island USA Do-Gooder Membership level. Existing Coney Island USA members at the Do-Gooder or higher level are automatically Film Society Members!

Film Society 2008 Schedule.

CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM

Since 1980, Coney Island USA has told the story of why Coney Island is important enough to one day retake its place at the cultural center of New York. The Coney Island Museum is at the heart of that mission. Its the only public repository documenting the history and culture of this important neighborhood. We fight to keep the history of this critical piece of American popular culture from being lost to the inevitable changes facing Coney Island today.

Ask the Experts
Sunday, July 6th, 4pm - Dr. Merryl Kafka, Curator of Education, New York Aquarium - Life on the Seashore: History, Resources, and Responsibility.

$5, Free to Coney Island USA members

Come join us on weekends, year-round. Admission is $.99 cheap!