It’s been a long, strange roller-coaster ride for Coney Island since Fred Trump, President Trump’s dad, gleefully demolished Steeplechase Park in 1966 — the last of the boardwalk’s trio of ...

It has been 50 years since the father of soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump demolished one of Coney Island’s most beloved icons — the Pavilion of Fun at Steeplechase Park. A new ...

Coney Island was home to a host of bizarre attractions (some of which would not be acceptable today), especially back in the days of Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase Park. You can see a ...

Captain Paul Boyton opens Sea-Lion Park, the first enclosed amusement park at Coney Island. George C. Tilyou opens Steeplechase Park at Coney Island, and introduces the "Steeplechase Horses" ride ...

Provided by Luna Park in Coney Island There’s Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park and the 103-year-old title attraction with the famous swinging cars. The Steeplechase Pier, which was rebuilt and ...

The land once belonged to Steeplechase Park, one the three original major amusement parks in Coney Island. George Tilyou founded it in 1897, but it closed in 1964 due to low attendance.

"Between 1897 and 1904, three amusement parks sprang up at Coney Island: Dreamland, Luna Park and Steeplechase." Coney Island’s first hotel had opened in 1829 — and by the post-Civil War years ...

BROOKLYN, NY — The annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest and Fourth of July fireworks returns to Coney ... The Coney Island July 4 Fireworks Spectacular will begin at 9:45p.m. at Steeplechase ...

Coney Island’s notorious space themed Astroland Park is celebrating ... “It began when Thompson and Dundy brought ‘A Trip to the Moon’ to Steeplechase Park in 1902 and culminated in 1962, with ...