Coney Island
Americannoun
noun
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Famed as a beach resort and amusement center.
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In January, Mamdani memorably dove into the frigid waters off Coney Island to publicize his freeze on rents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
It will pass Staten Island and some beaches, including Coney Island in Brooklyn, before connecting to an existing pipeline network near Rockaway Beach in Queens.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
Scattered throughout the pages are evidence of his beginnings in Coney Island, where he seemed to excel in mathematics, the piano and the accordion.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025
That includes day trips to Coney Island, beach getaways and picnics at the park — my personal favorite summer pastime.
From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025
They rode the subway out to Coney Island and found that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had beaten them there, fleeing the stifling heat of Manhattan even in the middle of the workweek.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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