the Coney Island Museum and its world-famous circus sideshows of fire eaters, burlesque performers and other “freaks.” Zigun, 68 – who’s unbridled moxie is credited with raising the ...

For over 40 years, Dick Zigun has run a Coney Island cultural center, museum, side show, and the annual Mermaid Parade. People call him the "Mayor of Coney Island." He said, "If you're eating ...

In cooperation with the New York Transit Museum, the exhibit called “Five Cents to Dreamland” just opened at Coney Island Museum. It explores how mass transportation — from the horse-drawn ...

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“Disney came to Coney Island in 1953 to see the park and how it ran. It was one of the only amusement parks back then,” said Sarah Staples,an archivist at the Cincinnati Museum Cente ...

Lisa Mangels-Schaefer, his great-granddaughter, is curator of the Coney Island Museum. Mangels-Schaefer says the ride is a testament to her family's legacy. "Even at an early age, I always felt ...

Coney Island USA also operates the Coney Island Museum and the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. Next weekend is also the 8th annual Coney Island Ritual Cabaret. The three-day event will take place at ...

Plans for a permanent memorial on the boardwalk have faltered. In the past, the float was displayed at the Coney Island USA Museum, but it is no longer on display. “The only thing about America ...

“I was very shocked,” said Sarah Staples, an archivist at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Staples had just begun researching Coney Island a few days before the news. “It’s just ...