Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by land fill.
Population: 60,000
Latitude: 40° 34' 40.37" N
Longitude: -73° 59' 38.51" W
WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS Television Network, located in New York City. WCBS-TV is owned by the CBS Television Stations division of CBS Corporation, and operates as part of a television duopoly with Riverhead, Long Islan…
WNBC, channel 4, is the flagship station of the NBC Television Network, located in New York City.
Katz's Delicatessen, also known as Katz's of New York City, is a kosher style (not kosher) delicatessen restaurant located at 205 Houston Street, on the southwest corner of Houston and Ludlow Streets on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York Cit…
Five World Trade Center (also referred to as 130 Liberty Street) is a planned skyscraper at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The site is across Liberty Street, to the south of the main 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center sit…
The Copacabana is a New York City nightclub. Many entertainers, among them Danny Thomas, Pat Cooper and the comedy team of Martin and Lewis, made their New York debuts at the Copacabana. The 1978 Barry Manilow song "Copacabana" is named after the cl…
111 Eighth Avenue is a full-block Art Deco multi-use building located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City.
The Dalton School, originally the Children's University School, is a highly selective, prestigious, private, coeducational college preparatory school on New York City's Upper East Side and a member of both the Ivy Preparatory School League and the N…
WQHT (97.1 FM) – also known as Hot 97 – is an American radio station in New York City under the corporate ownership of Emmis Communications. The station broadcasts on 97.1 MHz FM. Despite being billed as a Rhythmic CHR station on Mediabase and Niels…
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. The main campus is located at 1275 York Avenue, between 67th and 68th Streets, in Manhattan New Yor…
WPIX, virtual and VHF channel 11, is a CW-affiliated television station located in New York City, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media. WPIX maintains studios and offices located at the Daily Ne…
MLB Network is an American television sports channel dedicated to baseball. It is primarily owned by Major League Baseball, with television providers Comcast (through its NBC Sports Group), Time Warner, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communicati…
New York City Hall is located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, New York City, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses it…
Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Ce…
The Central Park Zoo is a small 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) zoo located in Central Park in New York City.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States national monument located in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island. It includes the Statue of Liberty, situated on Liberty Island, and the for…
New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering is one of the 18 schools and colleges that comprise New York University (NYU). Founded in 1854, the school is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States. Cur…
The 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt was a planned terrorist attack that occurred on May 1, 2010, which was foiled when two street vendors discovered a car bomb and alerted a New York City Police Department (NYPD) patrolman to the threat after …
The 1960 New York mid-air collision, also known as the Park Slope Plane Crash, was a mid-air collision between two airliners that occurred over New York City on Friday, December 16, 1960. United Airlines Flight 826, bound for Idlewild Airport, colli…