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      When Coney Island Was King

      ESCAPE

      ISIS may want to destroy it, but America's most famous escape will always survive as our unique spectacle.

      William O’Connor

      Travel Editor

      Updated Jul. 12, 2017 3:08PM ET / Published Feb. 28, 2015 6:45AM ET 

      Eric W. Baumgartner

      Coney Island's Dazzling History (PHOTOS)

      Courtesy Morris Engel

      Edward J. Kelty, Harlem Black Birds, Coney Island, 1930

      Edward J. Kelty

      Red Grooms, Weegee 1940, 1998–99

      Image Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York; © 2013 Red Grooms/Artists Rights Society

      Samuel S. Carr, Beach Scene, c. 1879

      Bequest of Annie Swan Coburn (Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn)

      Frederick Brosen, Astroland, 2008–13

      Photograph by Joshua Nefsky; Image courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; 2013 Frederick Brosen/Artists Rights Society

      Morris Engel, Little Fugitive, 1953

      Joseph Burstyn/Photofest; Joseph Burstyn, Inc.; Morris Engel

      Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008

      Courtesy Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

      William O’Connor

      Travel Editor

      @williamoconnor5william.oconnor@thedailybeast.com

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