Filtering by 2000 - 2009

Johanna Gargiulo Sherman
Artist and Coney Island resident recalls growing up on Mermaid Avenue above Carolina Restaurant

Julio Sauce
Ecuadorian-born Gravesend resident is among NYC's fastest long-distance runners in his age category

Antoinette Balzano
Granddaughter of Anthony "Totonno" Pero tells the story of how he founded Totonno's Pizzeria in 1924

Gene Ritter
Founder of Cultural Research Divers shares his knowledge of oceans, estuaries, and Coney Island Creek

Commendatore Aldo Mancusi
Memories of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian family

Albert Apuzzi and Dori Ten
Coney Island handball champions Albert Apuzzi and Dori Ten on the mecca of handball

Sarah Beetson
UK illustrator based in Australia who created her own summer-long artist residency in Coney Island

Viktor Vassiliev
New York Bread co-owner talks about baking 30 different kinds of Russian bread in Coney Island