| Name of Notable | Genus | AsNotedIn | Address | Proximity | |
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| Name | Genus | AsNotedIn | Address | Proximity | |
| Parachute Jump |
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Surf Ave | On Boardwalk W, at Kensington Walk | |
| Cyclone Roller Coaster |
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834 | Surf Ave | W 10th St |
| Coney Island Fire Station Pumping Station |
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2301 | Neptune Ave | |
| Coney Island Yard Electric Motor Repair Shop |
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Shell Rd | SW corner of Avenue X | |
| Coney Island Yard Gatehouse |
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Shell Rd | SW of Avenue X |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1867/00/00 | German immigrant and baker, Charles Feltman, begins selling Coney Island Red Hots - a frankfurter wrapped in a long bun - from a pie cart outfitted with an oven to Coney Island visitors. | Hotdog | ||||
| 1903/05/00 | Martin Couney | Work | Martin Couney opens a sideshow at Luna Park, one of the amusement parks on the Coney Island boardwalk, exhibiting premature human babies living in glass incubators. Couney does not charged parents for the care, which includes doctors and nurses. | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Mr Horn takes his daughter, Lucille, who was born prematurely at weighing less than two pounds, out of the hospital to Dr Couney's incubators exhibit in Coney Island by cab. Lucille will live to the age of 96. | |||||
| 1923/00/00 | Cary Grant | Actor | Able to juggle, perform acrobatics and ride a unicycle, Archibald Leach performs stilt walking in Coney Island. He also works as a barker, enticing visitors to come see the premature human babies living in glass incubators at Dr Martin Couney's sideshow. | |||
| 1925/00/00 | By the 1920s, Feltman's Ocean Pavilion (lost) with nine restaurants, a beer garden, outdoor movie theater, hotel, and amusement park caters to more than five million customers a year, serving up to 40,000 Hot dogs a day. | Hotdog | ||||
| 1941/00/00 | Beth Allen is born 3 months premature, weighing 1lb 10 oz. After spending three months on exhibit at Dr Martin Couney's Luna Park sideshow, five pound Beth Allen goes home. | |||||
| 1943/00/00 | Martin Couney | Work | Couney discontinues his Atlantic City summer incubator exhibits. His Coney Island summer attractions also close. Couney's Infantoriums have been accredited with saving the lives of over 6,500 premature infants. |
| Particulars for Coney Island: | |
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| Locale Type | Neighborhood |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| Annie Hall (film) | Film | Woody Allen | Boyhood home of Alvy Singer - shooting location was under the Thunderbolt (1925 roller coaster), the house was built in 1895 as the Kensington Hotel, both were demolished by New York City 17 November 2000 | |
| Brooklyn: A Novel | Novel |
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Colm Toibin | Tony and Eilis go to the beach at Coney Island, Brooklyn. |
| The Gift of the Magi (short story) | Short Story | William Sydney Porter | "If Jim doesn't kill me, before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl." | |
| The Greater Coney (short story) | Short Story | William Sydney Porter | So, I says, it will be Coney for Tuesday, and if the chutes and the short change and the green-corn silk between the teeth don't create diversions and get me feeling better, then I don't know at all. | |
| Tobin's Palm (short story) | Short Story |
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William Sydney Porter | Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. |
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