It’s hard to believe this unspoiled beach is Coney Island in the 1870s

Before the Cyclone, before Nathan’s, before the boardwalk, sideshows, amusement parks, bathhouses, mass numbers of beachgoers wading into the surf, Coney Island was an actual island where settlers in the English colony at Gravesend let their animals graze, according to Brooklyn magazine. Coney’s transformation into the world’s most famous […]