The Ferris wheel made its debut 128 years ago on June ... the 100-year-old Wonder Wheel of Brooklyn's Coney Island has something others don't: interior cars that slide down tracks and swing ...

Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and Coney Island; a roundabout ...

"The Wonder Wheel is the heart of Coney Island, here in the center. And to alter that skyline and to change that, it just puts a knife in my heart," said Dennis Vourderis. Brooklyn Borough ...

The masterminds behind Coney Island's Luna Park ... his honeymoon with his bride Mary O'Donnell. After seeing the Ferris Wheel there, Tilyou resolved to buy it, but it had already been earmarked ...

A local since childhood and proprietor of the Surf Theater at Coney Island, Tilyou visited the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago on his honeymoon and was awestruck by the Ferris Wheel ...

The towering Ferris wheel is the center of the park, and has been in Coney Island for longer than Deno’s itself — founder Denos Vourderis bought the Wonder Wheel in 1983 and built his new amusement ...