The Elephant Hotel opens at Coney Island. It becomes associated with prostitution, which prompts the local expression, "seeing the elephant." Peter and George C. Tilyou open Surf Theater ...
George and his father went into business together in 1882, opening Surf Theater, the first theater in Coney Island ... and some friends to inaugurate the Mermaid Parade. Now celebrating its ...
Over more than four decades, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade — the marquee summer ... MFTA collects used or leftover materials from businesses and theaters and re-distributes them for free ...