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unusual facts about Crystal McLaurin-Coney


Crystal McLaurin-Coney

She has worked in the industry for over 15 years with such clients as Goody's Headache Powder, UPS, Hanes Her Way, The NC College Foundation and just recently completed a commercial for Secret Deodorant.


Alphonso Sgroia

On 24 June 1916, members of the rival Manhattan Sicilian Morello Gang met with the Navy gang and its ally, the Coney Island gang, to discuss the division of criminal activities in New York.

Big Daddy's Restaurants

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says on his official web-site "You know you're from Brooklyn if......You Went to Big Daddy's on Coney Island Avenue as a change from Nathan's".

BMT Brighton Line

It was an excursion railroad — the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway — to bring beachgoers from downtown Brooklyn (via a connection with the Long Island Rail Road) to the seashore at Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean, at a location named Brighton Beach at the same time the railroad arrived.

Brighton, New York

Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.

Brooklyn Community Board

It is delimited by Corbin Place, Coney Island Avenue, Avenue Y, 86th street, Avenue U and MacDonald Avenue, Avenue P and Kings Highway on the north, Nostrand avenue and Marine Park on the east, as well as by the Atlantic Ocean on the south.

Coney Island Velodrome

At the height of popularity for both American bicycle racing and boxing in the 1920s, Coney Island drome was host to regional and state championship bicycle races, and boxing heroes including Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Coney Reyes on Camera

Coney Reyes on Camera was a weekly drama anthology that aired from 1984-1999 in 3 networks (ABS-CBN and RPN-9) and became the longest running drama anthology in Philippine TV history until ABS-CBN's Maalaala Mo Kaya broke the record in 2011.

Coney Weston

Coney Weston has a different meaning to other towns with the name Weston: it is not a true Weston (where the origin is from Old English west-tun "western farm, village or estate") but is a hybrid name, from Old Norse konungr "king" (cognate with Old English cyning "king") and Old English tun "farm".

Emil Dolensek

In addition to caring for animals at the Bronx Zoo, he also cared for animals at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island and, after 1981 when the NYZS took over management of the New York City zoos, he was responsible for the health of the animals at the Central Park, Prospect Park, and Queens Zoos.

Freaks of Desire

The band played their final shows at New York venues CBGB, Maxwell's and Coney Island High in the winter of 1997.

Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby

As was Mr. Wilson's original rendition Coney Island Baby was often included in the repertoire of a barbershop quartet.

"Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby" is a popular barbershop song composed in 1924 by Les Applegate.

Hot wiener

According to Johnson & Wales University professor Jack Chiaro the name New York System (and less commonly Coney Island System) appeared in Rhode Island in the early 1900s as a marketing strategy when hot dogs were closely associated with New York's Coney Island.

Into the Nightlife

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lauper says that the song title was inspired by Henry Miller's book Into the Night Life that inspired Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind, which inspired her to describe the images of nightlife in New York City.

Jeremy Coney

Coney is trained as a stage lighting designer; in 2008 he lit I Found My Horn, a solo play which has enjoyed runs at the Tristan Bates and the Hampstead theatres.

Last Days of Coney Island

Last Days of Coney Island is an upcoming project written, produced, directed and animated by filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, about a NYPD detective, the prostitute he alternately loves and arrests, and the seedy characters that haunt the streets of New York City's run-down amusement district.

Pacific Park

In 1916 Charles I. D. Looff, who built Coney Island's first carousel, started construction on an adjacent pier known as the Pleasure Pier, also called Newcomb Pier, for use as an amusement park.

Philip J. Dwyer

Good Old Coney Island (1957, 2nd revised edition 2000) Fordham University Press ISBN 978-0-8232-1997-1

Rachel Wacholder

Scott paired with Jen (Kessy) Boss defeated Youngs and new partner Nicole Branagh in their first meeting at the Coney Island Open.

Scouting in Colorado

The lodge totem is a coney (Pika), and the name translates to "Dwellers on the Mountain Tops" in the Kiowa language.

Steeplechase Park

The park is the setting for the groundbreaking 1953 movie "Little Fugitive," about a seven-year-old boy who runs away to Coney Island.

The Virus

During the band's first six months, they performed several concerts, including one in Philadelphia with the band Special Duties, and another at the now-closed Coney Island High in New York City.

Thor Equities

Thor then bought more land on Coney Island along Stillwell Avenue as well as some Boardwalk property including Astroland.


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