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The Mermaid Parade, a Coney Island tradition, returns to New York City this weekend for the 2025 celebration. The colorful ...
The above video previously aired on May 8, 2024 CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) — The party under the sea comes to the shore at the 43rd annual Mermaid Parade in Brooklyn ...
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 ...
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 ...
The creatures of the Atlantic Ocean will shimmy up the beach and onto the boardwalk on June 21 as the 43rd annual Coney ...
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 ...
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 ...
Officials will flip the switch on the famed Coney Island Parachute Jump which will now feature 8,000 colored LED lights expected to pulsate along with shows and concerts. The $2 million lights on ...
$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 ...
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 ...