The Latest Breaking News from Coney Island

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'The girls were a little shaken but made feel much better by the warm embrace of their parents'

NEW YORK — It was a dream turned into a nightmare.

NEW YORK — The troubled Brooklyn mom suspected of drowning her three small children in the ocean off Coney Island remained inside a psychiatric facility Tuesday, with a police source describing her as “incoherent” when taken into custody.

A wild shooting on the Coney Island boardwalk left one man dead and four people wounded, police said Sunday.

Shooting at the popular New York hotspot is the second shooting in as many months after five people were wounded in another shooting on the boardwalk in July

The man was killed in the early morning hours on Monday

NEW YORK — A shooter unleashed a hail of bullets on Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island boardwalk early Sunday morning, wounding five people, one of them critically, police said.

NEW YORK — No mustard. No ketchup. Just a right hand with a hot dog, a left hand with a bun — and a champion’s heart full of sodium.