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TIL Coney Island was at one point and island and they artificially connected it to Brooklyn in the 1920s-30s (www.wikipedia.org)
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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You never watched The Warriors or Mr Robot? If you did, did you think both of them were set in Detroit.

Coney Island hotdogs are sold every where often under the name "chili dog".

[–] Bye@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Kind of

I thought Gotham city in Batman is supposed to be Detroit