Coney Island New Year's Eve celebration to feature fireworks, light display

CONEY ISLAND -- Times Square has the crowds and the famous ball drop. But Brooklynites say Coney Island is poised to offer just as much festivity when its New Year's Eve celebration debuts this year.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, City Councilman Mark Treyger and the Alliance for Coney Island are hosting the event Wednesday night.

It's set to feature fireworks, some of the neighborhood's famous sideshow performers and its own version of a ball drop - a digital countdown light display on the Parachute Jump. It's a 262-foot, steel tower that was once an amusement ride.

Adams says police officers are expected to join in leading the 10-second countdown to 2015.

Brooklyn also boasts a New Year's Eve fireworks display over Grand Army Plaza, near Prospect park.