This short feature consists of about four minutes of very nice-looking, often beautiful footage of Coney Island as it would look at night from a distance, when you can see little except for the many lights. It seems to have been taken early enough in the evening for there to be plenty of activity, since everything seem to be open for business, and yet you do not actually see the human beings, just the lights.
The footage is interesting too, in that it presents a very different look from what the area probably looked like close up. The bustling, rather boisterous atmosphere that amusement park visitors probably would have experienced can barely be sensed, and instead there is an almost serene feeling of beauty in seeing the attractive patterns of the lights.
The panoramic footage of "Coney Island at Night" also calls to mind earlier, similar Edison features such as the series they made at the 1901 Pan-American exhibition. This 1905 feature is even more polished and interesting. It includes some simple but pleasant camera effects in some of the titles, and it accomplishes quite well what it intended to do.