Coney Island sunset
A dramatic sunset in October 2012, shortly before Hurricane Sandy struck Coney Island.
Photograph © 2012 by Charles Denson
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Luna Park pinwheel
Pinwheel about to be installed on the entrance to the new Luna Park, May, 2010.
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Collection type: Documentary photograph
Jimmy Prince at Major Market on Mermaid Avenue, 2008
The Prince of Mermaid Avenue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgoxPcz1Il4
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The Wonder Wheel
The Wonder Wheel at night as seen from the Bowery.
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Photograph by © Charles Denson
Jimmy McCullough, former owner of the B&B Carousell, poses with his wife and daughters in front of the historic ride. Built in 1919 at the Coney Island factory of William Mangels, the B&B Carousell was the...
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Children playing in vacant lot on West 30th Street cleared for urban renewal, 1969.
Photograph © by Charles Denson
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Collection type: B/W photograph
Bungalow fire in Coney Island, 1974
Photograph by Charles Denson © Copyright
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In 2006, as the culmination of a $5 million rehabilitation of the tower, lighting artist Leni Schwendinger was commissioned to transform the Parachute Jump into, according to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, "a beacon of light for this...
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Collection type: Documentary photograph