If you thought Coney Island is some frozen-in-time relic, think again. It’s loud, brash, proudly weird, and full of life.

Looff would take scraps of wood home from his job and shape them into carousel animals. By 1876, he'd constructed his first, putting it on New York's Coney Island, making it also the first ...

Coney Island in the 1950s serves as a backdrop for ... His affair with an older woman (Kate Winslet), who is married to a middle-aged carousel operator (Jim Belushi), is roiled by the arrival ...