Filtering by 2010 - 2019

Mohammed Saad Ali
Actor and playwright whose new play A Lonely Night in Coney Island is set on the Boardwalk

Joel Zika
The founder of the Dark Ride Project on documenting Spook-A-Rama and other historic dark rides

Dionne Brown (D.L. Jordan)
Lifelong Coney Island resident and author of Living Life Like It's Golden

Ronald Wimberly
Storyteller, cartoonist and designer whose graphic novel Prince of Cats is partly set in 1980's Coney Island

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

Kite Flyers at Coney Island Kite Festival
Kite flyers Billy Echeverria, Nicholas Rowe, Kurtis Jones and Charles Stewart at Coney Island's Kite Festival

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