Brooklyn, New York - House of Freaks - P.T. Barnum Mermaid

Address:: W. 10th St., Brooklyn, NY
Directions:: Coney Island amusement park, just across from the Cyclone.

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Brooklyn, New York - House of Freaks - P.T. Barnum Mermaid

The House of Freaks at New York City's fabled Coney Island is worth a look. Upstairs there's a museum, and downstairs a humble blackbox theatre which features, among other things, one of PT Barnum's three `mermaids' -- manufactured fish/monkey hybrids used in his circus show. Also try to meet Insectavora, the heavily tattooed and pierced contortionist. [Thom Woodley, 09/29/2002]

Brooklyn, New York - Feejee Mermaid

At the freak show in Coney Island they purport to have the feejee mermaid (on loan from the PT Barnum museum). [Jaosn Diaz, 10/14/2000]

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November 23, 2009