Oral History Archive

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Yeva Novik

A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn

Connie Scacciaferro

Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s

Beth Allen

Beth Allen recounts her origins as an "incubator baby" in Dr. Martin Couney's sideshow

Toby Deligdish

Girlhood memories of visiting Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Betya Shenker

Memories of World War II in Ukraine and immigrating to Southern Brooklyn

Judith Densky

Memories of growing up in Coney Island and Sea Gate in the late 1940s and 1950s

Larry Marquit

Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Mort Shatzkin

Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes

Tina Mednicoff Smokler

Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School

Irwin Temkin

Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life

Diana Wiener

Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s

Stuart Waldman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and fun summer jobs

Sofya Lobova

A longtime resident of Haber Houses and leader of the Russian-speaking community

Liz Unger

Memories of Coney Island in the 1950s and a family's candy factory on Mermaid Avenue

Jerry Omanoff

Memories of living in Coney Island from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s

Carol Polcovar

Writer and playwright who grew up in Coney Island from 1943 to 1956

John Philip Capello

Mystery artist who carved faces into rocks on the shoreline at Brighton Beach

Rachel Rosenberg Simon

Rachel Simon recalls her family's Deli Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue