We’ll take a trip up to the moon For that is the place for a lark So meet me down at Luna, Lena Down at Luna Park “The Teaser”, Coney Island in Luna Park (LOC) I have so many old things floating around my casa, it’s ridiculous. Blame it on the sheer pleasure I derive [...]
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The Oldest Things I Own
Posted in Art, Coney Island, Stuff I dig, tagged Plinky on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Best Photo I’ve Taken
Posted in Art, Coney Island, Places I've been, tagged Plinky on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t fancy myself a photographer, although the medium has always interested me. My ex-husband had to take a photography class when he was an undergrad, and in addition to being his subject now and then, I would observe him sometimes as he fiddled around with aperture settings and shutter speeds on the ancient, ever-so-slightly [...]
My Favorite Place in the World
Posted in Coney Island, tagged Love, Plinky on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“To inquiring friends: I have troubles today that I did not have yesterday. I had troubles yesterday that I have not today. On this site will be erected shortly a better, bigger, greater Steeplechase Park. Admission to the burning ruins: 10 cents.” – George C. Tilyou I’ve written volumes on my blog about Coney Island. [...]
Winter Coney
Posted in Coney Island on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I made my first off-season trip to Coney Island today and had a great time. The weather was cold and cloudy and the amusement area was dormant, as expected. The only thrills to be had at Coney Island in February, I found, came from trying to avoid slipping and falling on my ass on the slick, [...]
Stuck (happily) in New York for the weekend
Posted in Coney Island, Travel on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the most awesome travel delay ever. I woke up this morning in Nanuet for my last day with my current client, only to discover that the snow that had been predicted all week had started to fall early and in greater quantities than first thought. My scheduled flight home tonight had been canceled [...]
Confidential to my Brooklyn peeps
Posted in Blathering, Cars, Coney Island, Places I've been on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May I just say… the center lane on the Gowanus Expressway between about 65th St. and right before the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is BRUTAL! My rear end still hurts from all the bouncing. From this day forward, everytime I hear that ka-CHUNK noise a car makes when it hits a metal object in the road [...]
Coney
Posted in Coney Island on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a very long day of work with a client who can only be described as mercurial, I headed to my rental car this evening with a compulsion to go to Coney Island. It was more than a compulsion…. it was more like an instinct. I haven’t felt that single-minded in a long time. So [...]
Goodbye my Coney Island baby
Posted in Coney Island, Places I've been, Travel on August 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I hopped the 6 a.m. bus to New York on Saturday morning, just to spend a few hours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. I won’t be able to do that so easily for much longer, so I needed to say my goodbyes. Coney Island was so quiet. I got there around 11 a.m., before most of [...]
Do you know this little girl?
Posted in Coney Island, Stuff I dig on July 22, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I bought this photograph on eBay recently and it came in today’s mail. I was doing my semi-monthly e-browsing, looking for Coney Island memorabilia, and I found this photo stuck in between listings for postcards and some china from the now-defunct Half Moon Hotel. It is a mother and daughter sitting together on a bench [...]
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