Today, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club still holds weekly ocean swims from November to April. Cold-water swimmers tout the numerous benefits of those icy dips: reduced inflammation in muscles and ...

Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. It was New Year’s Day on Coney Island, where the annual Polar Bear Club Plunge drew out some of the city’s more daring characters: a group ...

Native New Yorker Mike Riegelman loves all things Hell’s Kitchen, from Rudy’s hot dogs to the neighborhood bodega cats, but he is also right at home hiking in the great outdoors — and has a goal to ...

Plans to open a controversial $3 billion casino on Coney Island’s fabled boardwalk could be crapping out. The land-use committee for Brooklyn’s Community Board 13 delivered a potentially ...

Community Board 13’s Land Use Committee dealt a blow to the proposed Coney Island casino on Wednesday night, as it voted to deny developers’ application to alter land use restrictions to make way for ...

CONEY ISLAND — Emotions ran high as supporters and opponents of the proposed The Coney Casino and Entertainment Resort clashed at a Community Board 13 public land hearing at the Coney Island ...

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 53-year-old man died after he was beaten up and robbed in the back seat of an Uber in Brooklyn. Police say it happened shortly before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Coney ...

At the 25th annual Long Beach Polar Bear Splash on Sunday, organizers announced they had raised more than $479,000 for Make-A ...

Feb. 8, Athens residents gathered in costumes along the sandy shore of Lake Chapman at Sandy Creek Park. A man dressed as ...

(Brian Krista/Staff) Nori Calvert of Towson, left, and Tammy Long of Kent Island get ready to participate in a plunge during the 2025 Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge at Sandy Point State ...