Kite Flyers at Coney Island Kite Festival

Interviewed at the 7th annual Coney Island Kite Festival, Billy Echeverria, Nicholas Rowe, Kurtis Jones and Charles Stewart talk about kite flying as "filling the sky with art" and as a sport. The season for kite flying on Coney Island Beach is from just after Labor Day through May, before the beach opens for public swimming. With wind gusts up to 30 mph on October 23rd, the day of the 2016 festival - steady winds of 10-14 mph are ideal - there were fewer kites in the sky than usual. The kite flyers recount stories of their first time flying a kite, getting hooked on the sport, fighting kites, competitions choreographed to music, and workshops on how to make a kite.