Beachgoers show off their strength on pull-up bars at Coney Island. A couple of kids wrap themselves in an American flag beach towel. When warm weather hits, many New Yorkers take the subway trip ...

A man runs out of the ocean carrying an American flag during the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim on Jan. 1, 2004. A swimmer cheers as he gets out of the near-freezing ...

The variety of wildlife available for photographs at Coney Island made headlines this month ... past Spider-Man posing on the sand, past the flag advertising a rent-a-clown for baby showers ...

NEW YORK – Coney Island is always a spectacle. And then there's the Mermaid Parade every June, a day when self-described Coney Island freaks set the bar for the rest of the year's whimsy and ...