The Parachute Jump has us singing this Cole Porter tune because we just got an up-close look at the light show it puts on after sunset. The defunct but dazzling Coney Island boardwalk ride has ...

On the first day of summer, outgoing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Coney Island amusement park officials will toss the switch on a makeover of the iconic Parachute Jump ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The lights along the Coney Island boardwalk are about to get a whole lot brighter. Thousands of LED lights are being outfitted for the Parachute Jump, an icon that has been ...

Coney Island’s iconic, illuminated Parachute Jump has quietly faded to black. A controversial $1.5 million lighting system installed on the 262-foot- high boardwalk landmark just five years ago ...

One block away from Nathan’s Famous, also on Surf Avenue, is the Coney Island Museum. The museum offers freaky, fun history of the neighborhood in a landmarked building. Speaking of landmarks, make ...

$1.5 million has been earmarked for the upgrade, which will also renovate the bottom of the Parachute Jump, an attraction moved to Coney Island after the 1939 World's Fair in Queens. It was ...

The city expects there will be a lot more foot traffic around the base of the Parachute Jump when Coney Island’s beloved B&B Carousel finally reappears inside Steeplechase Plaza – possibly for ...

After a seven-year effort to restore and illuminate Coney Island s historic Parachute Jump, the landmark is now a beacon in the Brooklyn skyline simultaneously representing a bygone era and the ...

The F train headed south in Brooklyn was filled with baseball fans like me and my family, headed out to see the minor-league Cyclones play a game at their waterfront stadium in Coney Island.

Now there’s a reason to wear sunglasses after dark — in Coney Island, at least! The neighborhood’s iconic Parachute Jump came back to life in full glittering glory on June 22, as corporate leaders ...

Maybe they should rename it the Golden Parachute. Taxpayers are shelling out a staggering $4 million for a redesign of the historic Coney Island Parachute Jump – and that’s even before ...

Coney Island’s iconic Parachute Jump lit blue on Tuesday, January 10 to mark the passing of beloved NYPD Detective Steven McDonald. McDonald, who was left paralyzed from the neck down following ...