Coney Island History Project volunteer Daniel Ioannou carrying the Terminal Hotel sign which was rescued just before the building’s demolition. January 4, 2015. Photo © Charles Denson Many people have expressed their dismay over the tragic loss of the historic Terminal Hotel, a beautiful building located on one of Coney...

Photo by Charles Denson, 1974 The one-hundred-and-ten-year-old Terminal Hotel on the corner of Mermaid and Stillwell Avenues that burned on December 18 operated as a hotel until the 1970s. The upper floors were abandoned and boarded up after it closed. A series of restaurants occupied the first floor over the...