by BeckyB on August 8th, 2005

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Why is Coney Island named such if it isn't an island?

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  • by Tel UK- Licensed to fish! on September 16th, 2010

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    Coney Island is a former island, now a peninsula, in the south of Brooklyn, New York City, in the United States. It is one of the five barrier islands of Long Island. Coney Island is also a neighborhood in the western part of the peninsula.

    Coney Island is about four miles (6 km) long and about half a mile (0.8 km) wide. It was formerly separated from the rest of Brooklyn by the Coney Island Creek, but the creek was filled in during construction of the Belt Parkway in the 1930s. The peninsula gets its name from the Dutch Conyne Eylandt or "Rabbit Island" - coney is also an archaic English word for "rabbit" - because it one featured numerous and diverse rabbits. However, hunting and resort development during the 19th century destroyed the rabbits' habitat.

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