Coney Island People: 50 Years, 1970-2020

174 beautiful and visually strong black—and—white photographs of Coney Island and its inhabitants, by well—known and respected New York photographer Harvey Stein.

Coney Island is an American icon celebrated worldwide, a fantasyland of the past with an evolving present and an irrepressible optimism about its future. It is a democratic entertainment where people of all walks of life and places are brought together. There isn’t anywhere else like it, and that is much of its appeal.

Here, 17...