The masterminds behind Coney Island's Luna Park, Frederic Thompson and Skip Dundy, were hardly plausible candidates for revolutionizing the notion of pleasure. And yet that is exactly what they did.

William “Bill” Keros opened Lafayette in 1924, next door to American Coney Island, founded by his brother Gust Keros in 1917.

"HERE WE GO!" reads a post on Roger's Facebook page Thursday afternoon, announcing the much-anticipated reopening of the 1518 ...