How Coney Island Has Changed

Coney Island has changed a lot since the 1940's.

CONEY ISLAND

SECTION 3 HAD A GOOD TIME IN CONEY ISLAND, WE DISCOVERD A LOT THINGS and we when to different parts of CONEY ISLAND fOR EXAMPLE we went to the aquarium and the beach.It was so interesting and we discoverd that CONEY ISLAND have very good places that you can have a good time and explore different interesting species.We liked it so much that we like to go again.This was one of the better trips that the HARBOR SCHOOL has.Coney Island is very beautiful because have poll,baroom. Coney Island is very beautiful.


BY: MARIA Liriano

corney island water quality

THe temperature of the water was very low it was
23 deegress cersius.The pH was 7.5, which means it was good.Salinity
was 25ppm. This is normal because Coney Island is connected to the ocean and the ocean water is salty. Dissolved oxygen was 8ppm. If the DO is too low, then fish might die, if it is too high then they might still die.

Coney Island

From where is the name of Conay Island?There no straigth answer because ther a lot of theoriesto the origenal name.Choose the one you like or think is the best way Conay Island gatta hes name. 1)"Konjn Kok"was the origenal Dutch name the fist man evolved to conyne.

(Island by the English and later to the easier osunding Coney Island).Konjn is the Dutch word for rabbit.there werer domesicate rabbits on the island duringthe 18th and 19th centuries when the first mariner visited it. 2)because of a sound th"a the wind did.when the wind blown the sand into trucated cones.Thus the name "coney" used as an adjective describe islan appearance. 3)Egber Benson a judge in a report to the NYHS in 1816 say that "coney"camefrom "Cnyn" the name of a Dutch family that once lived at the beach.

4)Also believed thet the name came after Jonh Coleman
who died abord the Hudsons "Half Moon" ship who was killed by the Indians.The name evolve to Coney Island.

by felipe vergara

Coney Island Time

Our class took the train to Coney Island. We took the L train from Myrtle and Wykoff to 6th Ave and transfered to the F train. We had such a good time there.