“But to Coney I goes a-Tuesday. I gets off the ‘L’ and starts for the glitterin’ show. ’Twas a fine sight. The Babylonian towers and the Hindoo roof gardens was blazin’ with thousands of electric lights, and the streets was thick with people. ’Tis a true thing they say that...
I made “Suzy’s Rollercoaster” as a music video for my sons’ band partly in memory of my mother (who grew up in East Flatbush and often took me to Coney when I was a child) and of my father (who was obsessed with the 1939 New York World’s Fair, which he visited as a child...
commentary. As the show continues, one performer delivers a short history of New York: "A green island surrounded by clear water, birds, fish, starry clear nights, peaceful fields... The Dutch came and stole it from the Indians." A lion, with a mane of ...