Filtering by 2010 - 2019

Kai Fung
Homeowner in Coney Island's West End for almost 30 years and first member of his family to settle here

Stephen Gaffney
Artist and educator who restored the old signs and painted new ones for Paul's Daughter

Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"

Hyeyoung Kim and Michael Cooper
Composer and lyricist of Luna Park, a musical, on chronicling the partnership of Thompson and Dundy

Anthony Wang
Resident of senior housing in Coney Island was born in Shanghai and survived the Cultural Revolution

Chris "Daze" Ellis
Artist whose Coney Island-themed work includes solo and community murals at Coney Art Walls

Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter

Gabriel Alegría
Jazz musician and bandleader of the Afro-Peruvian Sextet has lived in Coney Island for the past decade

Eric Safyan
Architect who grew up in Coney Island in the 1980s and designed the renovated Ruby's Bar & Grill

Lola Glass (Lola the Illustrator)
A nine-year-old artist whose favorite place is Coney Island paints a mural at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park

Father Eugene Pappas
On growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and the history of Greek-American businesses in the area

Josephine Gargiulo Cassata
Daughter of Gargiulo's founder was born in an apartment above Coney Island's famous restaurant

Mathylde Frontus
On growing up in Coney Island and founding the nonprofit Urban Neighborhood Services