Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island

Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island (2021)

History

Often discussed as an urban legend or a failed architectural project, Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island redresses the erasure around Riley’s completed amusement park for the Black Residents in Harlem and the Bronx in 1924 on Hart Island. Working across archives, contemporary footage of Hart Island, and speculative interviews with key Black cultural producers of the time, including Riley, the film reimagines what we know about Negro Coney Island and its legacy with New York City’s still active potter’s field, Hart Island.

  • Release Date: 2021-06-04
  • Runtime: 0h 10min
  • Director: Ayanna Dozier

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Cast

  • Ricky Goldman

    Solomon Riley

  • Selamawit Worku

    Elizabeth Riley

  • Rayly Aquino

    Harold Curtis Brown

  • Moses Jeune

    Jimmie Daniels

  • Crackhead Barney

    Florence Mills

  • Terrance Livingston Jr.

    James Van Der Zee