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Coney Island library branch. The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)'s Coney Island branch is located at 1901 Mermaid Avenue, near the intersection with West 19th Street. It opened in 1911 as an unmanned deposit station.
Coney Island Avenue is a road in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that runs north-south for a distance of roughly five miles, almost parallel to Ocean Parkway and Ocean Avenue. It begins at Brighton Beach Avenue in Coney Island and goes north to Park Circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park , where it becomes Prospect Park Southwest.
The neighborhood boundaries on this map are only approximate. ... Coney Island. Brighton Beach, ... Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the ...
Most of Coney Island's attractions, such as the Wonder Wheel, the New York Aquarium, and the Riegelmann Boardwalk, are located within the district, as is Calvert Vaux Park. The district overlaps with Brooklyn Community Boards 10, 11, 13, and 15, and with New York's 8th, 10th, and 11th congressional districts.
The Coney Island House, established in the early 19th century, was the first seaside resort on Coney Island. [48] Coney Island could be reached easily from Manhattan, while appearing to be relatively far away. As a result, Coney Island began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s, and numerous resorts were built. [49]
Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [1] Located on the portion of the Coney Island peninsula west of West 37th Street, [2] it contains mostly single-family homes, some directly on Gravesend Bay.
Coney Island: Windsor Terrace: McDonald Avenue October 31, 1956 portion north of Cortelyou Road now the B67/B69 buses Coney Island Avenue Line: Coney Island: Windsor Terrace: Coney Island Avenue November 30, 1955 now the B68 bus Greenpoint Line: Downtown Greenpoint: Myrtle Avenue, Kent Avenue, and Franklin Street November 19, 1945 Flatbush ...
According to the United States Census report of 2010, Brighton Beach and Coney Island, combined, had 111,063 residents as of 2009. [41] In that year, the median age of the combined Brighton Beach and Coney Island area was 47.9 years, substantially higher than the median age in Brooklyn of 34.2 and in New York City as a whole at 36.0. [41]