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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.
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
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