Happy Holidays from the Coney Island History Project! As 2025 comes to a close, we're grateful for our friends and supporters.
Highlights from this year include:
• Introducing our new Wonder Gallery with two new exhibits: Coney Island Streets:...
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As we near the end of 2025, the Coney Island History Project pays tribute to Frieda Schwelke and Connie Scacciaferro, who recorded their stories for our oral history archive and who we lost this year. We also honor Louise Bonsignore, who was Coney...
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We're happy to announce that the Coney Island History Project is extending its 2025 exhibition center season past Labor Day Weekend! The exhibit center will remain open free of charge on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-7 PM through September 28th....
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More than 500 oral histories are available for listening in the Coney Island History Project’s multilingual online archive. Among the recent additions are the following interviews recorded by Charles Denson and Tricia Vita.
Fifty years ago this...
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Happy National Hot Dog Day! In this early photo of Nathan's you can see the original logo created for the store by Coney Island sign painter Harry Wildman (1875-1930). His credit "Wildman Co." is beneath the logo and we've circled it in red. In...
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In an oral history newly published by the Coney Island History Project, Anthony D’Amico tells the secret inside story of how Coney Island’s $350 million dollar Stillwell Avenue Terminal came into being. D'Amico was the Chief Financial Officer in...
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The Coney Island History Project will open for the season on Memorial Day Weekend with two new exhibits on view from May 24 through September 1, 2025. Charles Denson: Coney Island Streets: 1965–1975 and Amanda Deutch: Brooklyn Wilds combine street...
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Happy Holidays from the Coney Island History Project! As 2024 comes to a close, we're grateful for our friends and supporters.
Highlights from this year include:
• Displaying the Spook-A-Rama Cyclops, an original Steeplechase horse, and an...
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Photos and credits clockwise from top right: Benny Harrison (Charles Denson), John Dorman (Philip's Candy), Ralph Avella, Gloria Nicholson, and John Rea Sr. (Coney Island History Project).
As we near the end of 2024, the Coney Island History...
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Join us for Coney Island History Show & Tell, an interactive reminiscence event presented by the Coney Island History Project at the Brooklyn Public Library's Coney Island Branch, 1901 Mermaid Avenue at West 19th Street, on Saturday, November...
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