Oral History Archive

Filtering by 1990 - 1999 back to all

Fred Stern

Bus driver for 35 years on the B36 route and the shuttle bus inside Sea Gate

Eric Sanchez

Growing up in Coney Island and Gravesend in the 1990s and 2000s

Irina Ginzburg (Upa)

Stand-up comedian and founder of the Coney Island Comedy Festival

Stefon Bristol

Film director and screenwriter who grew up in Coney Island in the 1990s

Nasim Almuntaser

Brooklyn College history student grew up working in his family's bodega in Brighton Beach

Reverend Cliff Herring

The Roller Coaster Reverend shares stories of Cyclone weddings

Olga Martynchuk

Mother of professional boxing star Nikita Ababiy

Jen Kepler

Educator at New York Aquarium and passionate observer of Brooklyn wildlife

Monica Ghee

Coney Island native and longtime independent game operator on Jones Walk

Ita Bullard

Horace and Ita Bullard's attempt to transform Coney Island

Jeffrey Berman

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

Gina Femia

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

Stanley Fox

Retired Coney Island arcade operator recalls his family's 30-plus years in the business

Olga Lozar

A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming

Allen James

Coney Islander, musician/songwriter in alt-rock band Newborn, lifeguard

Crystal Isley

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses in the 1980s and '90s

Robert Whitney

Memories of a gorilla show, a bungalow colony, and an underground city beside the beach

Alito Hernandez

From breakdancing on the streets of Coney Island with Fresh Kids to Peter Gennaro's Street Dreams