Animals
Elephant Hotel at Surf Avenue and West 12th Street, 1888. (Photo via Elliot Schechter)Gaudy amusement attractions have always been a Coney Island hallmark, but none have topped the strange (and sometimes raunchy) legacy left by the park’s 200-foot-tall elephant-shaped hotel. The Elephantine Colossus, built in 1885, reigned over
7th Street
Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopNot to worry, this elephant was adopted by a happy neighbor moments after this photo was taken. Take any photos in the neighborhood lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/
elephant
Neighbor Danielle Kellogg spotted this plant-loving pachyderm on E 19th St. Thanks, Danielle! Share your Ditmas Park photos by email at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll post them on the
100th anniversary of topsy
The tale of Topsy the Elephant is sad and cruel, and today marks the 110th year since her grisly demise at the hands of Thomas Edison’s staged electrocution on Coney Island at Luna Park. Topsy was a female circus elephant who never was comfortable with her captivity. Over her