Ferris constructed the world's first Ferris ... One of the most iconic, durable, and unique examples of the ride is the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island. Introduced in 1920 at a height of 150 feet ...

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 ...

Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park held its annual “Blessing of the Rides” opening ceremony this Sunday. This year, the amusement park is also celebrating its 105th opening season. The first 105 ...

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 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 ...

"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 ...