I'm Jen your local New York City guide and Coney Island is full of secrets this
video is the top 11 secrets about Coney Island Coney Island is full of first so
you have the first hot dog, the first escalator, the first frozen custard all
these good things and more by the way of course: the first roller coaster how could I
forget!? But did you know that the first roller
coaster was not the cyclone and the first hotdog was not at Nathan's for
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Originally called the land without shadows by the Lenape tribe, the Dutch
renamed it to Coney Island after the many rabbits found along the coast.
The hot dog was invented in Coney Island but not actually by Nathan's which a lot
of people think is the original. The original Nathan's location is behind me
the original place that invented a hot dog was actually at Feldman's right down
the street. Feldman's is no longer open
unfortunately they came back for a little bit in 2017 but they are no
longer located here so when you're looking for a hot dog the original gotta
check out Nathan's right here there are two locations one right behind me the
original and one on the boardwalk and the boardwalk one actually usually has a
lot less of a line this one behind me is pretty packed for 10:30 a.m. when they
open but highly recommend it if you want a New York City hot dog this is it.
German immigrant Charles Feldman invented the hot dog in 1867 to make it
easier to eat sausages on-the-go without plates or silverware. Nathan Handwerker
was actually an employee at Feltman's and he built a competitive stand right down
the street and that is how we got Nathan originally ten cents per hotdog these
hotdogs now go for over $4.75 it's crazy they also serve seafood which I highly recommend
it even has frog legs kind of crazy but I had to go with the classic Nathan's hot dog.
Enough talking let's actually eat this hotdog... glamour shots, glamour shots first
got it gotta get them glamour shots
Tastes like a hot dog, it's very good, very crunchy crispy on the outside
soft on the inside good bun yeah it's a classic a must here
in Coney Island.
Frozen custard was invented in Coney Island to replace ice cream that melted
too quickly in the heat in 1919 Archie C. Kohr invented frozen custard by
adding egg yolks to ice cream which didn't melt as quickly and had a
soft-serve texture. The Kohr brothers moved their creamy custard to New Jersey,
but Rita's Italian ice brought it back to Coney Island in 2014 another classic
to order is the Italian ice. The first ever roller coaster was invented in 1884
in Coney Island but it wasn't the cyclone though the cyclone is a historic
ride dating back to 1927 the first ever ride was a switchback railway that
opened June 16, 1884 and traveled six miles per hour
this five-cent ride saw lines of up to five hours long. Next there was the
Thunderbolt in 1925, the Tornado in 1926, and then the cyclone in 1927.
Coney Island was North America's first permanent enclosed amusement park that
charged an admission fee to enter the then sea lion park that was later
replaced with Luna Park. Coney Island had the first bike path in America in 1894
you can ride it still today for about five miles along Ocean Parkway between
Coney Island and Prospect Park it is now designated a historical landmark
designed by Olmsted and Vaux in the 1860s the first escalator was invented
here on Coney Island by Jesse W Reno he invented it as the first incline
escalator but it only went up seven feet and it was a whole attraction for only
about two weeks before they actually moved it to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Carry Grant, the famous Hollywood star, began his career as an acrobat walking
on stilts through the Bowery in Coney Island to advertise steeplechase Park.
Sigmund Freud said the only thing about America that interests me is Coney
Island.The famous psychoanalyst visited
dreamland in 1909 which had a reputation of hedonism and sexuality with gambling
and drinking that he believed was a great place to study the it Id. The Wonder
Wheel was sold recently because of a proposal. The iconic Wonder Wheel
invented by Charles Herman was built by Garms from 1918 to 1920 when Garms died
in 1935 his son Fred took over looking for a new owner by the 1980s. Dino
Vourderis who owned and operated a nearby kiddie park proposed to his wife Lula in
front of the wheel in 1948 and said if you marry me I'll buy you the Wonder
Wheel. He couldn't because it wasn't for sale back then but eventually he did buy
it from Garms for $250,000.
There is a graveyard of ships in the creek where old ships and barges were
dismantled and scuttled there's also a Yellow Submarine there that Jerry Bianco
dreamed to build and use to salvage the remnants of an Italian ocean liner that
sank off the coast of Nantucket in 1956.
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