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New York`s 92-year-old Mike -- Mighty Atom Jr. -- Greenstein said his teeth have very little to do with pulling his car with his mouth in a strongman show. The grandfather of three and great-grandfather of two is scheduled to pull off the feat of pulling his 2006 tan Buick LaCrosse with his teeth next week at Coney Island.
42″ in taking students from Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn’s coastal Coney Island neighborhood to a screening of the movie on the 66th anniversary of the day Robinson broke major league baseball’s color barrier. I’ll travel back to Tampa and go to work on Tuesday
Brooklyn is home to icons like the Cyclone in Coney Island and the Brooklyn Bridge, and now it can lay claim to the MTV 'Video Music Awards,'More quotes »
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Coney Island hopes for rebound after Sandy
open; we're on schedule," he said. "Now we just need people to start coming."Nearly 11 million people flocked to Coney Island Beach last year between Memorial Day and Labor Day, according to city figures. Many attended well-known attractions, like the Nathan's Read more »
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Coney Island rides blessed for post-Sandy opening
-- While some New Yorkers prayed in churches, the folks on Coney Island had their amusement rides blessed for the season opening five months after Superstorm Sandy .The October storm destroyed homes and businesses, and damaged rides. Sandy flooded the electrical Read more »
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Nets' first season in Brooklyn has been one long roller-coaster ride
Island 's longtime signature ride has nothing on the borough's new tenants.The Nets' inaugural campaign in Brooklyn has had more twists and turns than the Cyclone, loaded with enough highs and lows to fill up every seat in its wooden roller-coaster car.The Read more »
Around the web
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The Way Forward
Wright helps unload supplies at Operation Turkey, the free meal United Way provided for Coney Island residents affected by Hurricane Sandy. United Way of New York City President and CEO Sheena Wright speaks at a Women’s Leadership Council event. A United Way 12:41 AM from Gotham Magazine Read more »
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Principal named for next year at Cherry Hill West
out to the kids is what you got back." A Brooklyn, N.Y., native who started his teaching career near where he grew up on Coney Island, Morton, 40, spent 10 years as a teacher and an assistant principal in the New York City School District before moving to from Philadelphia Inquirer Read more »
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NY1 For You: Hurricane-Wrecked Playground Is Off-Limits To Coney Island Residents
by Hurricane Sandy has still not returned to normal, and that is apparent at one public housing development on Coney Island, where residents say they want their playground and community center back. NY1's Susan Jhun filed the following NY1 For You report. from NY1 Read more »
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Theater News: Peter and the Starcatcher Asks You to Save the Mermaids
Mermaid Parade is a 30-year-old Coney Island tradition, described as "an American celebration of ancient mythology and hinky-tonk rituals of the seaside." This year, however, the damage wrought on Coney Isalnd by Hurricane Sandy has left the parade $100,000 from TheaterMania.com Read more »
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The Muse With the Long Face
a work by Reginald Marsh, chronicler of New York low life. Marsh was so taken with the implausible signage of a Coney Island sideshow act, “Milo the Mule Face Boy,” that he documented it in a photo that appears in Marsh’s posthumously published portfolio “Photographs from ArtInfo Read more »
