Ooohhh Baby
I'd like to send this one out to Lou and Rachel
People are talking about Coney Island again.
But one item just off Surf Ave doesn't get a whole lot of attention...
What makes a moon a half moon?
It's in shadow of course.
Add a 5 block proximity to a timeless classic windows image match on 23rd street--a numerical 'or more' folks just can't let go of--
and this wildly coincidental image caption depicting a literal red rectangle outline,
(I honestly did not fabricate that caption. It's the title of the article that this image went with. But no, I don't seriously believe this is source material.)
And the Half Moon Hotel is looking pretty darn ok at a glance.
...but wait. Looks like in the 1950's it became the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center. Imagine...
"where would daddy hide treasure?"
"At grandma's house!"
[the above hypothetical was pure conjecture. I have zero evidence for this.]
she's a rose, she's a pearl... the moon in the mist to me.
Further reading:
https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/ask-mr-coney/half-moon-hotel
https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/collection/half-moon-hotel
https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/ask-mr-coney/shadow-half-moon-hotel