"It's a show," Cyclones manager Gilbert Gómez told Brooklyn Paper in April. "It's a fun environment to play in. The roller coaster behind and you got all those lights popping up at night, and you got good fans, good crowd when it gets warm."
"Coney's not just where the sideshow survived. It's where it evolved. There's a hierarchy in circus life, and at Coney Island, disabled performers - 'naturals,' as they call themselves - sit at the very top."