Sideshows Make Magic in NY Amusement Park

NEW YORK — In an age of packaged entertainment, special effects and YouTube, Coney Island sideshows continue to stun and amaze, much as they have for more than a century.  The weird, the amazing, and the simply gross are alive and well at Coney Island, where sideshow performers test their limits. Coney Island draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.  For more than a century, the amusement park has offered tourists fantasy, thrills and cool ocean breezes at the southern tip ...