EAST FARMINGDALE, New York -- The mom-and-pop amusement park is a staple of American suburban life, a connection to cherished memories and an incubator of new ones, a place where the biggest ride is ...

As temperatures outdoors hover in the 40s, Melonie Cunningham sits at a sewing machine to attach a white ribbon to the inside of a canvas beach umbrella so that once temperatures hit the 80s families ...

You’d never know that Adventureland, the state-of-the-art amusement park in Farmingdale, was once a 6-acre chicken and vegetable farm. Since Alvin Cohen and Herb Budin opened the park in 1962, ...