by Lincoln Anderson

A piece of historic Coney Island lives on in Little Italy, where gallery owner Allan Reiver has an original, working Mangels shooting gallery from the early 20th century. Reiver, 73, who owns the Elizabeth St. Gallery, at 209 Elizabeth St., hunted down the hidden shooting gallery on Stillwell Ave., near Surf Ave., on the street where the Nathan's hot dog shop is located.

The attraction had been boarded up in the 1930s — "when weapons were outlawed in New York City or shooting galleries were curbed," Reiver thinks — and was actually hidden behind a basketball-hoop shooting concession.

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Source: http://thevillager.com/