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Coney Island

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Island in the city, it's indeed habitual for us to know about. But what is the island, or accurately, a peninsula in a such a populated city look like? How is the climate? Does it have a taste of New York? That's the questions pop up in my mind when hearing about Coney Island but not yet experiencing it.

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Summary & Reflection

In contrast to the dry climate in central New York city, the Coney Island is a humid subtropical zone surrounded by the sea. It's a peninsula with the sands in the outer perimeter being replenished manually. So it also makes sense if we think of the beach and the coastline as a man-made landscape. "The beaches are currently not a natural feature; the sand that is naturally supposed to replenish Coney Island is cut off by the jetty at Breezy Point, Queens." As a result, the beaches and structure of Coney Island are well preserved, which provides it a potential to develop into a resort or vacation site in the 19th century. In addition, its geographical location had attracted a large amount of residents in Manhattan and Brooklyn to spend their days visiting and vacationing since the early 1800s. "Due to Coney Island's proximity to Manhattan and other boroughs, and its simultaneous relative distance from the city of Brooklyn to provide the illusion of a proper vacation, it began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s, assisted by carriage roads and steamship service that reduced travel time from a formerly half-day journey to two hours." With the convenience of facility and fast developing transportation system, more and more city dwellers usher in this island to spend their day off. Even now, the popularity of Coney Island hasn't faded. New York city indeed provides people with splendid life, but almost everyone would love to experience a "city-islander" life style in Coney Island. It's a place blended with nature and modernization. There were a lot of constructions over years to bring Coney Island revival, and some of the original wood made recreation facility had been renovated. However, the history of Coney Island is still imprinted and able to be experienced when you step onto the sands.

Evaluation

Lead Section

The lead section provides a general idea about Coney Island as a shorten version of introduction.

Content

The texts are backed up with figures and a lot of datas. Also, you can see the links with specific words when reading the article, which are supported with evidence.

Tone and Balance

Descriptions and words being used in this article have a neutral tone. The article is presented by summing up information about several sections such as history, transportation, and geography, and these sections are basically being presented with facts and information instead of stories.

Organization and Writing Quality

The descriptions make sense, so that as a reader, the texts are clear to understand.

Overall Impression

As an encyclopedia, it satisfies nearly all the threshold and requirements of wikipedia article requirements. It's a professional text.