Mike "Thunderbolt" Norton opens a hotel at Norton's Point, on the eastern end of Coney Island, which caters to a corrupt clientele. The Elephant Hotel opens at Coney Island. It becomes associated ...

the Coney Island Elephant (which you'll see in the above photos) was the first sight to greet immigrants arriving here. The original Coney Island Hotel was constructed in 1829. In the 1830s and ...