Bruce Davidson, Gang on the Boardwalk at Coney Island, 1959
Garry Winogrand, Coney Island, 1959
Lou Bernstein, Coney Island, 1965
Leon Levinstein, Coney Island, 1966
Madoka Takagi, Coney Island, 1990
For decades, New Yorkers (and photographers) have enjoyed the pleasures of Coney Island: boardwalks, beaches, and culinary delights. Read more about the history of one of New York’s most famous beaches here.
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Reading for the fourth time Joseph Heller’s book ; Here and there’ about his upbringing in Coney Island, he mentions George Mandel who said of this place:
‘If a person did have to grow up in a slum (he used that word ‘slum’ for comic exaggeration ) he could imagine no better one’
Returning to the above post, I now realise that the title of Joseph Heller’s book
is ‘Now & Then’.
I have only 20 more pages to go… but then I can read it again.
If you want to know about Coney Island, read this book.
Thank you ‘erinbarnett’