Actor David Harris, best known for his role in the 1979 film “The Warriors,” has died at ... a member of the red vest-wearing Coney Island gang. While the film struggled upon its release ...

The masterminds behind Coney Island's Luna Park, Frederic Thompson and Skip Dundy, were hardly plausible candidates for revolutionizing the notion of pleasure. And yet that is exactly what they did.

The explorer Henry Hudson, commanding the "Half-Moon," puts in at Coney Island before continuing into what is now called New York Harbor. According to tradition, his right-hand man, John Coleman ...