Coney Island

This rare and slightly different version of Weegee's famous Coney Island photograph was taken on Sunday, July 21, 1940, a day that had a reported one million people at Coney Island. The summer of 1940 was one of the hottest in New York City's history and this same variant image was published in PM Newspaper the following day. As Weegee stated in PM Newspaper "Saturday was very hot. So I figured Sunday ought to be a good day to make crowd shots at Coney Island." (Weegee, PM Newspaper, 2 July 1940)

This work is typically incorrectly dated July 28, 1940. The only other known print of this image is in the Hendrik A. Berinson Collection.