Coney Island

In January, Mamdani memorably dove into the frigid waters off Coney Island to publicize his freeze on rents.

It will pass Staten Island and some beaches, including Coney Island in Brooklyn, before connecting to an existing pipeline network near Rockaway Beach in Queens.

It is thought that Coney Beach Amusement Park was built to entertain American troops returning from the war and took its name from New York's pleasure park on Coney Island.

In the small world these characters inhabit, Mancuso was close to the brothers’ dysfunctional family back in Coney Island.

Scattered throughout the pages are evidence of his beginnings in Coney Island, where he seemed to excel in mathematics, the piano and the accordion.