Mike "Thunderbolt" Norton opens a hotel at Norton's Point, on the eastern end of Coney Island, which caters to a corrupt clientele. The Elephant Hotel opens at Coney Island. It becomes associated ...

In the early 1900s, Coney Island enticed New Yorkers to visit with its bathing pavilions, seaside resorts and amusement park. The Great Depression took its toll on the fun-loving spot, causing ...

Dead heroes Thomas Edison Nicola Tesla and Topsy the Coney Island elephant make their return to the screen in this tragic stopmotion animated tale of two illfated lightbulbs forced to confront the ...

Thomas, Ontario. In 1903, a circus elephant in Coney Island is publicly electrocuted in what becomes the earliest recorded footage of the passage of a creature from life into death. In Dead ...