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...majority of criminals are male, but an increasing number of females are joining their ranks. Of those arrested for larceny-theft last year, 33% were female. Women are also becoming more violent. In the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, a gang of young black women has been assaulting and robbing dozens of old people for the past six months; two victims died of heart attacks that resulted from beatings by the gang...
Paley's fiction is intensely urban. Most of her stories are about women in domestic circumstances. In Faith in the Afternoon, a harried housewife goes to visit her parents at the Children of Judea home for the aged near Coney Island and learns that the generation gap is measured in inches. In Wants, a woman concludes that her 27-year marriage ended mostly because of her lack of simple, binding covetousness...
Died. Nathan Handwerker, 83, founder of Nathan's Famous, the Coney Island hot-dog emporium; following a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polish-born, Handwerker came to the U.S. in 1912 with $28 and much energy. He went to work in Manhattan as a delivery boy, moonlighting weekends at Feltman's, Coney Island birthplace of the hot dog. Encouraged by two singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Handwerker in 1916 took his savings of $300 and set up his own nickel hot-dog stand, slicing Feltman's price in half. The business grew into a multimillion...
...working on two grant-financed projects. One, a grant from the New York Council of the Arts, is "financing a film about Coney Island...
...ancient, but somehow winning. After Maverick, it's all elevated, and there's a Queens-like ride along the beach. Ride the Blue Line during the summer, or late spring, and be sure to stop off at Revere Beach, the best thing on the coast this side of Coney Island...