Forward written by Lola Star!!

No collection of Coney Island memorabilia is complete without this spectacular photographic documentation of 40 years of Coney Island by the fantastic Harvey Stein!  

The photographs in this incredible book give the viewer a sense of what Coney Island is beneath the obvious rides and beach, it’s not just a playground, it is where life is lived and looms large.  Coney Island is the ultimate melting pot with the old, young, white, Hispanic, black, rich and poor. It’s the poor man’s Riviera, a place where you can be yourself or who you ought to be. 

This visual feast features 40 years worth of the spirit of Coney Island is simotaneously haunting, delightful, exhaulting, sublime, banal, exciting, frightening, beautiful, ugly, gritty and glittering!

It also contains a fabulous forward written by our very own, Lola Star!  Check out her essay about the "Eternal Return of the End of Coney Island."  Each book is autographed by Lola Star!  Autographed copies are available exclusively at Lola Star!!  

Coney Island 40 years is a beautifully printed hard cover book.  It contains 214 reproductions, 11 3/4 X 9 inches, 240 pages.  It also contains a Coney Island timeline by John Manbeck (1609-2010)

You can find out more about the book, photograher and photos here!