Sand sculpting at Coney Island

My favorite...very powerful.

Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest is set for Saturday

Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest is set for Saturday - am New York
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The contestants who vie for prizes ranging from $100 to $400 are diverse in age, background and aesthetic sensibility, but there is one fact upon which they all agree: The sand in Coney Island is among the best in the world.
"The sand in Coney Island is truly magnificent," for building and carving, affirmed Matt Long, a professional sand sculptor from West Brighton, SI, who also owns a wood restoration business.
Just as Manhattan schist makes a great anchor for skyscrapers, Coney's sand has "a fine angular grain and good silt content to help hold it together," that allows sculptors not only to build higher, but more elaborately, resulting in mind-boggling tall and precise sand sculptures, Long said.

Coney Island's Shore Theater now being used by homeless squatters - NY Daily News

Coney Island's Shore Theater now being used by homeless squatters - NY Daily News
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A squalid and long-abandoned Coney Island movie palace has been taken over by homeless squatters.
A woman was seen Tuesday sleeping on a mattress among the peeling plaster and collapsing walls on the fourth floor of the historic Shore Theater on Surf Ave.
The interior has the apocalyptic air of a bombed-out shell that might be seen in a horror movie. Steel wires hang from the rotting ceilings above heaps of dust-strewn wood and bags filled with debris.

Robin Williams dead at 63 in suspected suicide | Fox News

Robin Williams dead at 63 in suspected suicide | Fox News