Step into Coney Island on a summer day and you’ll hear it — screams from the Cyclone, music blasting from boardwalk speakers. Walk down Surf Avenue and you’ll see a different kind of spectacle: ...

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Sweet Pepper Klopek set a world record in 2015 when he lifted a 15-pound sledgehammer using two hooks pierced into his cheeks. On Sunday, Arrie Fae Bronson-Davidson is ...

At age 95, Brooklyn native Lucille Horn often reflects on her long, full life, with a husband and five children, and how it might not have happened if not for the renegade doctor who put her in a ...

The Mystic Circus is a show you really have to see to believe. Rush Hicks founded the show in 2012 in the heart of Brooklyn, NY. He started performing with The Coney Island Sideshow which is where he ...

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Many circus and carnival workers have learned their craft at the Coney Island Sideshow School, a three-day seminar. The 16-year-old program teaches students how to swallow swords, eat fire, walk on ...