Author: Lola

* Winner of Contemporary Coney Love Story * Coney Island is not just a place, it has a spirit that lives within those who have been embraced by its love. This is not just a story about falling in love with someone. This is a story about falling in love with life and falling in…

Since moving to Brooklyn in 2001, Natalie’s favorite place in the world has been Coney Island. When she met her future-husband, Frank, in 2006, she couldn’t wait to share her passion with him. Her favorite place also became his. Over the next few years, the two shared several amazing dates there including fireworks on the…

Coney is definitely our special date place. My fiance Dave and I met on Flickr, but Coney Island is one of the places we visited in NYC the first time we met in person, back in Sept. of 2006. We were just friends for about two years before becoming a couple in 2008. One of…

It was 2006, right on the verge of summertime. The worlds of two born-and-raised NYC kids – a boy who lived near Coney Island and a girl from Astoria, Queens – unexpectedly collided on a skybridge at Hunter College. We were on opposite ends of the N train and would have never met if it…

I met Bill on Memorial Day 2008 in Long Island while visiting a friend. We hit it off immediately, talked on the phone but didn’t have our first date til the beginning of June. That night, I asked him to come home with me and was shocked when he turned me down!?! Turned out he…

Although not officially our first date, the first time we hung out together alone was at the 2002 Mermaid Parade. The Cyclone was an excellent excuse to sit close and lean up against each other, but the mood was killed when Astroland’s pirate ship made us both terribly nauseous. During the many summers that followed,…

When my husband and I moved to Brooklyn, we were so happy that Coney Island was so close. We did our engagement photos there by The Wonder Wheel and on the beach. We also had our rehearsal dinner there, it was just a casual dinner at Nathans and then playing on the beach. It was…

Coney Island Love Story……: I was raised in Brooklyn, NY. Along with my twin brother and older siblings, much of my childhood was spent in Coney Island. They were happier days indeed for all of us. It was also a regular outing for my parents even before we were a glitter in their eyes. That…

My grandparents came from Italy and settled on 16th street. I grew up there with my dad and siblings. It was a different time, but living 2 blocks from the Parachute Jump is hard to describe. Each and every day I fall in love with Coney Island all over again. Generations of friends and family…

Big Mike and I had been together for about nine months when the 2010 Mermaid Parade rolled around. He is a widely-known fixture of the parade, and is always accompanied by at least one naked woman (usually more). In 2004, he won “Best Neptune” for his conception of the Rape of Europa, in which he…

Our first date had a late night stop at Nathan’s…..he ordered the raw clams…. and I remember thinking I was never going out with him again as i watched him eat those clams with his nasty eighties moustache! And a good night kiss was definitely out of the question!!!! Must have been some Coney magic…

My fiancee and I met at work.  We knew each other for 3 years before we went out.  She had never been to Coney Island – I’m a native. We went to the aquarium and then to a Cyclones game (I REALLY don’t like baseball but she’s a fan).  She thought it was sweet that…

Submitted by Jason Sferlazza On a  warm Saturday afternoon in late June,1936, my Grandpa Eddie was a refrigerator technician who worked in Coney Island.  My Grandma Florie was a beauty queen from Jersey City.  By fate,  Gramps pulled his  mirror shined Oldsmobile Convertible out of a parking space on West 19th,  right where my grandmother…

I didn’t grow up in Coney, but my husband did! In 2003, I had moved back to the NY area after living in Philly for 15 years. After our first date (internet dating – yeah)! it was obvious that we had to get to know each other better. As I fell in love with Jonathan,…

Ian & I were both psychotherapists at the same clinic when we met. He looked my name up on the staff roster to ask me out. Our first date was at the Coney Island Amusement Park riding the Cyclone and the Wonder Wheel and walking the beach together. It was so much fun and very…

We met at the Siren Festival. I thought he was laid-back, turned out he was just hung-over.  David Johansen hugged Sylvain Sylvain, and I wondered aloud if we were the only ones in the crowd who remembered Max’s and Johnny Thunders.  I used to go out with Cookie Mueller he replied, which I thought at…