Filtering by 1990 - 1999

John Hunt
Model builder of roller coasters and amusement rides including the Cyclone and Deno's Wonder Wheel

Jeffrey Berman
Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center

Juanhua Zhao
Tai chi teacher at Coney Island's Seaside Innovative Senior Center shares her life story

Gabriel Valencia (in Spanish)
Twenty-five years at Gregory & Paul's and Paul's Daughter on the Coney Island Boardwalk

Emmanuel Elpenord
An actor's memories of growing up in Sea Rise apartments and a souvenir of the Wonder Wheel

Alisa Minyukova
Brooklyn artist who emigrated from Russia as a child is drawn to Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach

Leonid Alaverdov
Tapestry artist and Coney Island resident whose work is inspired by his native Baku and New York City

Steven Feinstein
Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue

Lorraine Ross
Resident of Coney Island for 47 years and retired transit cleaner at Stillwell Terminal

Steve Campanella
Collector of 1950's and '60s memorabilia whose Bensonhurst home is known as the Statue House

Lu Zhao
Calligrapher recounts his artistic journey from China's Guangdong Province to Brooklyn's Bensonhurst

Gina Femia
Brooklyn-born playwright on her plays set in Coney Island and a marriage proposal on the beach

Dennis Thomas
President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for the past 12 years and a member since the 1980s

Shavon Meyers
A poet and storyteller on growing up in Coney Island at Gravesend Houses, the beach and Astroland

Tiana Camacho
A voice actor's reflections on how growing up in Coney Island in the 1990s shaped her imagination