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Shooting the Chutes, Coney Island, 1907

The ride was built by Paul Boyton and Thomas Polk around 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island.



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View from Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn
American Scenery,
by N.P. Willis, Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, 1840


Gowanus (/ ɡəˈwɑːnəs/ gə-WAH-nəs) is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.