Here is a nice video piece put together by the New York Times on Coney Island from the Summer of 2007 celebrating the impending closing of Astroland.
YouTube videos
Coney Island Water Shoots 1896 -1903
Coney Island 1903 - 1904
Coney Island of the 1940s
Coney Island USA 1952
Riding the Cyclone 2006
Coney Island Baby, 1976 album by Lou Reed.
Details for the 2003 movie, Coney Island Baby
