Fort George Amusement Park , ca. 1907.

Fort George Amusement Park was located in what is now the northernmost end of Highbridge Park between 190th and 192nd Streets and Amsterdam Avenue, at the spot that was historically notable for being the location George Washington defended a British assault after the Battle of Brooklyn.

The amusement park, called Harlem's Coney Island, offered two Ferris wheels, three roller coasters, nine saloons, a pony track, hotels, a casino, shooting galleries, a tunnel boat ride, and two music halls. Easily accessible at the end of the Third Avenue Trolley line, the park opened in 1895. Much like its south Brooklyn counterpart, the amusements quickly garnered a reputation as a loud place filled with drunken visitors and unchecked crime. The park suffered two, likely purpose-set, fires in 1911 and 1913 and closed for good after the second one.