Fortune telling machines are part of the history of amusement parks in the 20th century, and one of the grande dames is Grandmother’s Predictions, located inside Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement ...

Conversation with a Coney Island beachcomber. He had been doing pretty well so far; he had picked up two hundred dollars, but he needed dry weather and a high wind lasting three days to really dry ...

Coney's owner, Taft Broadcasting, had already decided to abandon its small, flood-prone, land-locked site and build Kings Island on 364 acres in expansive Warren County, 32 miles north.

Coney Island History Project chief Charles Denson has created a film as an homage to the recently demolished Astrotower, which served as a spinning observation deck in its heyday. The defunct ride ...

It’s opening day at Coney Island’s Luna Park, the first since the pandemic. It’s April 9 and 55 degrees — at best — but no one cares. This year, no one wants to miss a thing.

Coney Island—home to the Cyclone, a wooden roller coaster that, this year, celebrates its ninety-first birthday, and a hot-dog shop eleven years its senior—is an amusement park steeped in the ...

Coney Island, the 137-year-old Cincinnati attraction, is closing at the end of the year. Here's what to know. Local News Sports Opinion NKY Things To Do Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

Coney Island opened its first roller coaster, called Dip The Dips, in 1911. More than 100 years later, the rides are closed for good.