{"id":30187,"date":"2012-07-06T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=30187"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:06:16","slug":"coney-island-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/30187\/coney-island-attractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Adventures: Get Freaky in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Inspired by a member of our oM team who recently joined\u00a0howaboutwe.com, we decided to explore date ideas around the city and share our best tips in a comprehensive guide to \u201cRomantic Adventures\u201d in NYC. This is the fourth in a series of nine guides.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Freaky Friday<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nForget a \u201cnormal\u201d date; normal is forgettable. Celebrate\u2013or discover\u2013your inner freak with a quirky showdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Spend the day on the beach, at the amusement park, or roll up to the boardwalk in time for the Coney Island Circus Sideshow. Sideshows by the Seashore packs ten spectacles\u2013fire eaters, snake charmers, a bug-eating mermaid and more\u2013into one 45-minute show ($10\/person).\u00a0For something steamier, opt for the Girlie Freakshow (Saturdays at 10pm; $15\/person) or stay for Burlesque at the Beach (generally $12-15\/person). Make time for another Coney Island relic, Nathan\u2019s Famous\u00a0hot\u00a0dogs and Friday night fireworks at the beach. (9:30pm from the last weekend in June-Labor Day). <em>Sideshows by the Seashore: Surf Ave. &amp; West 12th St.;\u00a0Nathan\u2019s Famous: 1310 Surf Ave.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0<\/strong>For a bit more flip for your freak, head to one of <a title=\"permanent link to big sky works\" href=\"http:\/\/bigskyworksbrooklyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Sky Works\u2019<\/a> acrobatic showdowns. Depending on the night, the Williamsburg-based acrobats like to pair their \u201ccunning stunts\u201d with movies, music and other madness. Duck into Kinfolk Studios down the block for artful late night ramen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YujiRamen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuji<\/a> (Thu.-Sat.)\u00a0<em>Big Sky Works: 29 Wythe Ave, Williamsburg;\u00a0Yuji at Kinfolk Studios: 90 Wythe Ave, Williamsburg<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a member of our oM team who recently joined\u00a0howaboutwe.com, we decided to explore date ideas around the city and share our best tips in a comprehensive guide to \u201cRomantic Adventures\u201d in NYC. This is the fourth in a series of nine guides. Freaky Friday Forget a \u201cnormal\u201d date; normal is forgettable. Celebrate\u2013or discover\u2013your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":30403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[785,320,315,775,325,781,752],"tags":[21,728,740,43,727,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-30187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beaches-adventure-activity-2","8":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","9":"category-day-trips","10":"category-ethnic","11":"category-new-york","12":"category-outdoor-dining","13":"category-subway-2","14":"tag-beach","15":"tag-burlesque","16":"tag-dating-adventures","17":"tag-fireworks","18":"tag-hot-dog","19":"tag-romantic"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":30403,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/11259_183496704513_1855363_n-199x300.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}