Show Origin of Name Coney Island Fortune says No one knows ex ex- exactly exactly how Coney Island came by it its name There are arc ar those who claim that It derives from the shaped cone sand dunes of the original beach And there are others who believe that It ft is a perversion of Colman Colman- the name of a bailor on OD Henry Hud Hud- Hudson's Hudsons Hudsons Hudson's sons son's Half Half-A loon oon who was killed by Indians in an unexplained brawL I But the most heavily supported and most plausible tradition is that the I early Dutch settlers found hordes of rabbits scampering across the sand dunes and called it Konijn eiland efland or island of which Coney was Has a logical and gradual tion OD t i iI |