“’Down here at your Coney Island, toward the end of the season, I am made to feel very sad,’ said the stranger to me. ‘The great mournfulness that settles upon a summer resort at this time always depresses me exceedingly. The mammoth empty buildings, planned by extraordinarily optimistic architects, remind me in an unpleasant manner of my youthful dreams. In those days of visions I erected huge castles for the reception of my friends and admirers, and discovered later that I could have entertained them more comfortably in a small two story frame structure.’”
Stephen Crane, Other Writings About New York, “Coney Island’s Failing Days” (1894-6).
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