There really used to be a family’s house underneath a notorious Coney Island roller coaster

🫧 Open on Bubbles I always thought it was a gag helped along by trick camera work. In 1977’s Annie Hall , Woody Allen’s character, Alvy Singer, attributes his nervous personality to having grown up in a house “underneath the roller coaster in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.” Turns out there really was such a house—not under the Cyclone but beneath a similar wooden coaster called the Thunderbolt. Built in 1925, it predated the Cyclone by two years. And while Allen didn’t live in the house, (his childho