Coney Island (Peninsula) (New York City, New York)

Coney Island is actually a peninsula in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area, which is home to a diverse collection of approximately 90,000 residents, is well known in American culture and figures prominently in NYC history. It is an iconic symbol of recreation, summer, adolescence, nostalgia, urban decay and the entire 20th century. Notable landmarks and points of interest include the Original Nathan's Hot Dogs, Luna Park (located on the former Astroland Amusement Park site), KeySpan Park (home of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team, a New York Mets minor league affiliate) and it's world famous boardwalk and Atlantic shoreline.

Coney Island is the westernmost of the barrier islands of Long Island, about four miles (6 km) long and one-half mile wide. It used to be a true island, separated from the main part of Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, part of which was little more than tidal flats. There were plans into the 20th century to dredge and straighten the creek as a ship canal, but they were abandoned and the center of the creek was filled in for construction of the Belt Parkway before World War II.

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