Coney island is a Peninsula on the southern tip of Brooklyn. He was the biggest entertainment centre in the USA, currently there is a residential area and ocean beach.

In the O. Henry story "a two-bit fan of" the millionaire fell in love with the shop assistant, he proposed to her and promised to show the wonderful places where among the palaces gondolas and between Hindu temples elephants go. The millionaire offered a trip around the world, and the poor child has decided that he wants to ride her on Coney island, and gave "penny lover" resign.

The misunderstanding occurred because, at the junction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Coney island was a seaside resort with lots of entertainment. Millions of visitors come there to escape the summer heat or to tickle your nerves at the local attractions. "Luna Park" was covered by the new-fangled electric lights in the Park "Dreamland" visitors were taken on a small railway by imitation Venetian canals and the Alps. Real elephants there. Oh, that poor girl!

In the early twentieth century in "Dreamland" opened astonishing for the time, the current exhibition of incubators for premature babies. In this hospital room one wall was glass, and through it-and we were staring onlookers, who paid ten cents. So Dr. Martin Koni proved the usefulness of the new technology (in hospitals then the incubators did not apply). Many premature babies have been saved in the "Dreamland", parents that didn't cost a thing – costs have been covered by visitors.

In the forties Robert Moses, Builder of new York, took over Coney island. He demolished several entertainment districts, in their place, to build an aquarium and an ice rink. The last amusement Park was closed in 1964. In the fifties "Rabbit island," as its name translates from mixed Dutch-English, became a Peninsula when partially covered the Strait of Coney island Creek.

Now Coney island consists of three blocks – sea gate, Manhattan beach and Brighton beach, which have long lived natives of the USSR and the new Russia.

A quarter of the C-gate (Sea gate) on the Western tip of the Peninsula – private. On three sides it is surrounded by water and on the fourth is closed by a fence. The inhabitants of the quarter of its beaches and marinas, the streets are quiet, all go in the summer in bathing suits. A completely separate life.

But Coney island is plenty of space for public areas. Nearly five kilometers away is the famous ocean beach, separated from living quarters by a wide wooden boardwalk. There are lots of cafes and shops. The recently opened the new "Luna Park" is full of modern attractions. The new York aquarium, opening directly onto the promenade, offers to watch the games sea lions and otters.

On the corner of Surf Avenue and Stillwell Avenue you can visit the historic diner – "Famous Nathan's frankfurters". Frankfurters is hot dogs, who in 1916 began to make the recipe wife IDA, a Polish immigrant, Nathan Handwerker. His clients included al Capone, Cary Grant, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt – speak, Roosevelt was treated to these hot dogs of the British Royal family in 1939 and ordered them to Yalta when he met with Churchill and Stalin.

This diner is a slice of old Coney island, the parachute tower not far from the "Luna Park". It was built for the world fair 1939 – important guests rose to 58 meters and jumped with a parachute. Now the rig is not working, but completely renovated and towers over the boardwalk as a reminder of the former new York.