Still, the fabulous amusement parks survived, including the three greats. To entertain the rich, three racetracks were opened beginning in 1879 they eventually attracted gamblers and gangsters - “Sodom-by-the-Sea,” The New York Times called Coney Island in 1893 - and by 1910, they were all shut down. Visitors arrived by railroad, ferry and trolley, by private carriage and yacht. Hotels and bathing pavilions went up along much of the south Brooklyn seacoast, including Brighton Beach to the east of Coney Island and Manhattan Beach beyond. “I remember as a skinny kid seeing more fat, naked old men than I could ever have imagined in one place.”Īlthough Manhattanites vacationed in the area as early as the 1840s and ’50s, it wasn’t until after the Civil War that it really took off. “And, of course, Nathan’s also had great crinkle-cut French fries and fried clams to die for,” says Sanger, who liked to follow his meal with a stroll to the boardwalk, past the Silver’s Baths, where men would soak in saltwater pools or sweat in saunas. Sitting in the sun, I look up at the stand’s signage, which is not shy about announcing its other gustatory pleasures: lobster rolls, cheeseburgers and fried frog’s legs (which became popular in the 1940s, Miller tells me, when G.I.s returned from World War II with fond memories of French cuisine). By 2001, there were outposts in every state and in multiple countries around the world. Murray Handwerker, Nathan’s son, expanded the business with a branch in Long Island in 1959 and another in Yonkers in 1965. In a sense, Nathan’s was among the very first great fast-food restaurants. Millions of immigrants, including my own grandfather, had arrived in New York during the previous three decades and they were always looking for a good, cheap meal. Nathan, a Jewish immigrant who had left his native Galicia (now part of Poland) only four years earlier and barely spoke English, was just 24 when he set up his stand. I do know that they are still made with the special seasoning mix that Handwerker’s wife, Ida Handwerker, dreamed up in 1916. When I ask my lunch companion, Bruce Miller, Nathan’s senior director of company operations, who has been with the company for 40 years, what gives the dogs their flavor, he tells me it’s a closely guarded secret. Already I can smell the ineluctable scent of a Nathan’s Famous hot dog.įor me, the magic of that old Brooklyn was Passover dinner at my Aunt Lil’s in Flatbush, my father’s brothers kvetching about the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers from Ebbets Field in 1957 - they would be mad about it for decades - and those trips to Coney Island in the late 1950s, when it was a child’s dreamscape of rides and food, of beach and boardwalk, and we would return home sunburned, stuffed with banana frozen custard and drowsy from the day’s delights. The Atlantic Ocean looks exactly as it used to - a deep cerulean blue - and the first little girl I see has pink cotton candy stuck in her hair.
It’s a luminous July morning when I arrive in Coney Island and I feel the same excitement I did when I was 9 and, on warm summer Sundays, my father and I would leave our apartment in Manhattan and drive to this southernmost coast of Brooklyn.
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**If you have found any of the info helpful, please shoot me a "THANKS" below.In this series for T, the author Reggie Nadelson revisits New York institutions that have defined cool for decades, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. Other than a couple quirks, we love coming here a recommend it to anyone for cheap, good eats! The root beer here is good and what I usually get b/c I don't like Pepsi and bring a quarter so you can get a refill in the always changing plastic commemorative cup (we love the cups). Not a fan of the fries since they have skins on them, but everyone else seems to like them. Never been to a mustard Nazi place before I've even been asked why I didn't order mustard and had to explain this to them. In fact, the last the last time, she wouldn't let me touch it at all. see like like mustard, but a very thin line so I like to just do it myself instead of scrapping off excess mustard. I find it very strange that they will not let you. They are very good and for just over a buck, you can't beat that deal. Whenever we are in town, we can't leave without stopping at least once and getting the chili hot dogs. Italian Restaurants for Lunch in Beaver Falls.
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