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Coney Island

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Coney Island

Seaside resort in Brooklyn, in the southwest of Long Island, New York, USA; it is 10 km/6 mi long and about 1 km/0.6 mi at its widest point. Coney Island (now a peninsula) has been popular for its amusement parks and ocean bathing since the 1840s, peaking in 1955 when about 1.5 million people visited on July 4th, but numbers have since declined; it is now mainly a residential area.

The claim that Coney Island was so named because of the wild rabbits (coneys) that inhabited what was originally a small island may be apocryphal. Its original Dutch name was Konjin Kok – Konjin means rabbit. Another theory is that the area was named after Coney Island in County Sligo, Ireland. The hot dog was invented here by Charles Feltman who operated tourism businesses.



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, was the owner of several hundred lots on the island of Manhattan; of one hundred and twenty-three in the city of Brooklyn; of nearly as many in Williamsburg; of large undivided interests in Milwaukie, Chicago, Rock River, Moonville, and other similar places; besides owning a considerable part of a place called Coney Island.
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