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...
Content type: News Article
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...
Content type: News Article
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...
Content type: News Article
Last year, Cynthia Nuara of Queens, New York, sent a query to the Coney Island History Project asking if we had photos or information about her great-grandfather John Polise’s bait and tackle store. John's Bait & Tackle operated from the 1940s...
Content type: News Article
Photo: Jimmy Prince, Charles Denson and John Dorman at Ruby's on the Coney Island Boardwalk in 2011.
We're sad to hear that our friend John Dorman, 93, has passed away. John Dorman and Philips Candy were Coney Island landmarks. His smiling face...
Content type: News Article
As we near the end of 2023, the Coney Island History Project pays tribute to five Brooklynites that we lost this year who recorded their stories for our oral history archive: Eliot Wofse, Michael Onorato, Ralph Perfetto, Santos Torres, and Sofya...
Content type: News Article
Nearly 450 oral histories are available for listening in the Coney Island History Project’s multilingual online archive. Among the additions in March and April are the following interviews recorded for us by Mary Conlon, Daniel Gomez, Julia Kanin...
Content type: News Article
On International Womens Day we celebrate the women whose diverse voices are part of the Coney Island History Project's multilingual Oral History Archive. Share and preserve your Coney Island memories by recording an interview via phone or Zoom. We...
Content type: News Article
More than 440 oral histories are available for listening in the Coney Island History Project’s online archive. Please listen, share, and if you or someone you know would like to record a story remotely via phone or Zoom, sign up here. We record...
Content type: News Article
John Philip Capello is a painter and sculptor who grew up in Bensonhurst in the 1940s and '50s and moved from Brooklyn to Sag Harbor in 1989. Our newly published oral history with him is the culmination of the interviewer's twelve-year search for...
Content type: News Article