CONEY ISLAND
“Coney Island is a fetal Manhattan.�30 -Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1994 Coney Island saw the birth of the enclosed amusement park. Built in the 1860s, on an island outside of New York City. It established a new form of recreation. With its innovative fun houses and roller coasters, this form of entertaining the masses significantly differentiated American leisure from the rest of the world. In the same way, pleasure piers in America would look different from their European counterparts adopting a pleasure of a more ribald nature.
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