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[Photo courtesy Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a shot of a wedding that took place under dark skies on the beach in Coney Island. It comes from one of our favorite GL Photo Pool contributors Rubys Host who, we might add, was extraordinarily supportive and encouraging during the time GL was down.

Before I lived and breathed New York, before it all became an expected, normal blur of my life, I took the train down from my small town only maybe once or twice a year. I didn’t like it. I hated the crowds and the noisy filth. And before I grew numb to it, on those trips I was moved by the homelessness, and even more so by every passerby’s disdain.

On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater got into a midtown cab—and was never seen or heard from again. So began the saga of “the missingist man in America,” a state supreme court judge with ties to organized crime and a penchant for picking up showgirls who left behind a tantalizing trail of crooked dealings.

Last night we attended the first-ever Freaktoberfest down in Coney Island. We got introduced to some great drinks; the Albino Python from the Shmaltz Brewing Company (He'Brew) was our favourite.

Coney Island's Crossroads Seeded on Sat Oct 4, 2008 8:46 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal) Coney Island's Astroland amusement park closed earlier this month, a casualty of an ambitious attempt to remake New York's famous seaside resort.

The City of New York’s Comprehensive Development and Rezoning Plan for Coney Island would reduce to 9 acres from 15 a city-owned open-air amusement park north of the Boardwalk between KeySpan Park and the New York Aquarium. It would transform the area into a year-round entertainment district, with abundant retail and as many as 5,000 apartments along Surf Ave.

October 2, 2008 Outside Purnima Kapur’s office, the spires and towers of downtown Brooklyn sparkle in the early fall sunlight. “Everything we create here is for people to live and work in,” says Kapur, 45, wearing a smart black suit and perching on the windowsill, “and if we don’t understand that,

Coney Island will definitely be missed

Tuesday greetings, collectors! NYC is quiet today, as many people are ringing in the Jewish New Year (L'shana Tovah!) while the rest of us are collectively holding our breath, waiting to see whether the Wall St. roller coaster will dip or creak upwards today.

The Fabulous Insectavora!While the Coney Island Film Festival was a fun event you couldn’t help but getting a sad vibe when you looked around the area surrounding the Coney Island USA building. Although it is closed for the season anyway the vacant lots surrounded by chain link fences bulldozed by Thor Equities last year intensify a feeling of impending doom only amplified by the rainy weather.