Manhattan Adult Entertainment: The Phantom’s new home: Coney Island

Who could blame him? From genteel beginnings in the late 1820s, when the sole inn on the island attracted visitors like Walt Whitman – who ‘declaimed Homer and Shakespeare to the surf and sea gulls by the hour’ – had emerged a thrilling whirligig of a place.
By the 1900s, 90,000 people visited during the summer; in 1909 it was more like 20 million. Accessible by steamer, and later by subway, it was New York’s summertime hub.
There, on the two-mile stretch of beach that made up Coney Island, were crammed the archetypes of American life. There were families running respectable businesses, pleasant little bathing pavilions and snack stands.
There were gangsters, too, toughs running prostitutes and gambling rings and illegal boxing matches. Con men and petty thieves trawled the piers and beach front for easy marks.

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