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New York Journal | Beyond dog-eat-dog politics, a new chompion emerges | Marvin Olasky

NEW YORK CITY— The New York Times tends to view America as bipolar, with red and blue state residents so far apart that never the twain shall meet. But take the D-train from Times Square to Coney Island on July 4, and America looks more like red-white-and-chew.

Coney Island, part of New York City, is famous in American literature and film. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby invites Nick to go to Coney Island, and in Clara Bow's 1927 silent film It, the neighborhood's amusement park is practically a co-star. But after 1950, waves of officials such as New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses looked down on the "tawdry" amusements that characterized the boardwalk area. They pulled strings to substitute for them tawdry housing projects that became gang havens.