Key Authors/Text
Sol Yurick- The Warriors (Yurick, Sol. The Warriors. New York: Grove, 2003. Print.)
Michael Immerso- Coney Island: The People’s Playground (Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: The People’s Playground. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002. Print.)
John F. Kasson- Amusing the Million (Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hill & Wang, 1978. Print.)
Woody Register- The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements (Register, Woody. The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. Print.)
Rem Koolhaas – Delirious New York (Koolhaas, Rem. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York: Monacelli, 1994. Print.)
Laura Pulido (Various articles on environmental justice)
Key quotes
In 1958, urban planner Robert Moses said that Coney Island was “romantic only at night and in midsummer, rotting inside and out in spite of nostalgic fables” (Michael Immerso 169).
Novelist Mario Puzo said, “If I were a wizard with one last magic trick in my bag, I would bring back the old Coney Island” (Immerso 175).
Source: Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: The People’s Playground. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002. Print.
“This is what we fought all night to get back to?” – The Warriors (film) (speaking disappointedly about Coney Island)
Source: The Warriors. Dir. Walter Hill. Perf. Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright. Paramount Pictures Corporation, 1979. DVD.
Scholarly Quotes
“Today’s Coney Island, according to residents, officials and real estate brokers, is in yet another phase: safer and more stable than at its low point, populated largely by middle-class homeowners, yet still without the full complement of infrastructure that such a community needs.”
Source: Mooney, Jake. “Ups and Downs Now Confined mostly to Rides.” New York Times (2012): 7. Web.
