Coney Island

Coney Island, barely separated from the south-west angle of Long Island, at the entrance to New York harbour, is a narrow strip of sand, 5 miles long, by $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile broad, with a fine beach. It is a crowded place of summer resort, and is connected with New York and Brooklyn in summer by a number of railways and steamboat lines. On the edge of the dunes stand a long row of enormous wooden hotels, and farther inland is the Brooklyn seaside home for invalid poor children. Other structures are a tubular iron pier (1000 feet), a look-out tower (300 feet), and a great number of bathing pavilions, some nearly as large as the hotels. In winter the place is nearly deserted.