Bruce Bliven

"Coney Island for Battered Souls"

    When the subway came to Coney Island, it went from drawing thousands to hundreds of thousands.  Bruce Bliven's article, from a November 23, 1921 issue of The New Republic, looks at the people and sights of the island through a different (and more critical lense) than many of the writers of his day.  By the Twenties, many people saw Coney as a good thing and the critics had been left with the Dreamland fire.  So, Bliven's account had a bit more cynical twist than the author's of Coney's next generation.

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