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A wedding procession heads toward Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park at Coney Island

Shane Kavanaugh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:32:22 +0000

After a rainstorm lets up, fog and clouds move in over the Coney Island boardwalk

Eleanor Miller — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:19:37 +0000

Charles Denson, author, reads from his book in front of a jellyfish tank at the New York Aquarium

Eleanor Miller — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:04:52 +0000

Denson appeared as one of half a dozen poets and writers who performed in the first annual PARACHUTE: the Coney Island Performance Festival.

Photo By Eleanor Miller

Below street level on Coney Island Avenue table tennis contests rage on the tables of the Brooklyn Table Tennis Club.

timothy.persinko — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:10:36 +0000

Managed by Nison Arinov, a table tennis champion from Tajikistan, the club hosts players, many from former Soviet republics, late into the night, six days a week.

For immigrants, sports can maintain a link to an identity and a culture left behind in another country. Click here to read more about the way that a community has grown around table tennis in southern Brooklyn.

For more reporting on immigration across the borough by students at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, view Brooklyn Bridges Cultures.