There's one problem with teaching its history: the lighthouse is typically off limits, located inside a private and gated community on the western end of the Coney Island peninsula. Without permission ...

The explorer Henry Hudson, commanding the "Half-Moon," puts in at Coney Island before continuing into what is now called New York Harbor. According to tradition, his right-hand man, John Coleman ...

But after years of economic instability, Coney Island has reclaimed its place on the Brooklyn map, with a fresh roster ... B74 or B82 buses from Manhattan. New York in One Day Guided Sightseeing ...

A sleeping subway rider burned to death on an F train in Coney Island Sunday morning after a madman threw a lit match onto ...

But the 1870s were also the heyday of Tammany Hall, New York's infamous political machine. McKane indulged the ruffians, pickpockets and prostitutes that operated around Coney Island with Tammany ...