Shafali Patel Photographs

Shafali Patel is from Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located southwest of Queens on the western tip of Long Island. Shafali has completed her education from a Brooklyn Elementary School and now studying in City University of New York. It is the largest urban university in the United States.

Shafali love to have fun and attend parties with friends. Whenever have free time she visits Southern Brooklyn. Southern Brooklyn was once the premier resort destination for New York City. Coney Island developed as a playground for the rich in the early 1900s, when wealthy New Yorkers would bet on horses at the Gravesend or Sheepshead Bay Race Track and dined at high-class restaurants and seaside hotels. No trip to Sheepshead Bay would be complete without a stop at the docks and then dinner at Lundy’s Restaurant. The introduction of the subway made Coney Island a vacation destination for the masses, and it evolved into one of America’s first amusement grounds. The Cyclone rollercoaster, built in 1927, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1920 Wonder Wheel and other rides are still operational at Astroland. Coney Island went into decline in the 1970s, but is undergoing a renaissance.

Shafali promised she will post more of her photos, if she get positive feedback on these photographs.