Coney Island News

Sea lion Duke performs with trainers Guenter Skammel and Angela Coccoma during a preview of the sea lion show at the New York Aquarium, in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, May 24, 2013.

Visitors will be able to peer down into pools containing walruses, harbor seals and other mammals.

Our physical surroundings affect everything from our mood and stress levels to our ability to think, remember, pay attention, and make decisions.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York City Parks Commissioner Veronica M. White today opened all 14 miles of New York City's beaches for the 2013 season.

"The Cyclone at Coney Island," a photograph by E. Cindy Stein, is part of the "Coney Island and Jones Beach: Empires by the Sea" exhibition opening at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, Stony Brook, June 14, 2013.

Greenpoint attorney James Maleady answered that call, travelling to the borough's hardest hit neighborhoods, including Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie and Coney Island, offering pro bono services to storm victims.

Weather be damned - Brooklyn is ready for the unofficial start of summer this weekend with the beginning of its annual outdoor film screenings.

Or maybe you waited to long to even make a plan, and now it looks like you'll be sticking around the wet, Fleet Week-less city this weekend.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.

As the devastated Oklahoma City suburb of Moore begins to rebuild after Monday's epic storm, federal forecasters warned that as many as six more could be heading our way in the coming months, in the form of hurricanes.

Coney Island beach: There's almost nothing that screams summer in New York like Coney Island's classic kitch.

A double dose of avant garde experimentalism within the increasingly cutting edge confines of Tompkinsville.

Nathan's Famous in Coney Island is having a grand re-opening Thursday more than six months after Superstorm Sandy flooded the restaurant with 6 feet of water.

A Tea Party Republican is making the move from Bay Ridge to Coney Island in hopes of finding a smoother ride into the City Council.

Coney Island institution Nathan's Famous is back in action. The original Surf Avenue location of the hot dog emporium has been shuttered since Hurricane Sandy caused severe damage to the space.

Until now, few have known the story of the cartoon-like murals that once covered the interior of the Playland Arcade on Coney Island's Surf Avenue.

Thank god for Marty Markowitz, possibly the only lovable politician left in New York.

From left: Gregory O'Connell, chief financial officer at the O'Connell Organization, Two Trees' Caroline Pardo and Brooklyn Rock Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, many tenants along Brooklyn's waterfront are still unable to pay rent or operate their businesses.

They weren't necessarily the most patriotic, obvious or agreeable choices. NASCAR, bourbon, state fairs, Vegas, what's not to love? Apparently, plenty.

The walkway connecting the West 8th Street train station to the Coney Island Boardwalk will soon be no more.