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#13 Sighte Studio What: Ride the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island on a Friday night in the Summer. Where: Coney Island, Brooklyn, USA. How: It is a mix of amusement, commerce, and nostalgia. The festoon lights of the rides, and the ignited metals of the fireworks make for the most delightful play of brilliants that Richard Kelly could ever have imagined. When: While you can enjoy Coney Island from Easter to the end of October, the fireworks happen during Friday evenings in the summer. Why: Coney Island makes you light up like a child at any age. Its historic side show, boardwalk, and rides retain the joy and pleasures of another age, and 124 years later still manage to be an escape for New Yorkers of all backgrounds. At the top of Dino’s Wonder Wheel, particularly on one of the swinging cars, you can look left over the Atlantic Ocean, right to see the ever-growing skyline of Manhattan and straight ahead to catch the old parachute drop, draped in LEDs. Then, once the sun sets you get the bursts and sparkle from the fireworks shot off over the boardwalk… it’s mesmerising.
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“Coney Island is and always will be ‘the people’s playground.’ It’s a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.” Harold Feinstein
Photo: “Coney Island - Fireworks and Wheel 2012” by Bob Jagendorf CC BY-NC 2.0
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