Filtering by 2010 - 2019
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Stanley Shapiro
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and going back four times a year
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Nasim Almuntaser
Brooklyn College history student grew up working in his family's bodega in Brighton Beach
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Tara Altebrando
Author of Dreamland Social Club, a novel set in Coney Island, who got engaged on the Wonder Wheel
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Stanislav Baev
Coney Island resident and founder of the not-for-profit American Alliance for Protection of Animals
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Jeffrey Berman
Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center
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Frederick Brosen
Artist whose watercolors of the Astroland Rocket and Wonder Wheel sign are emblematic of Coney Island
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Gina Femia
Brooklyn-born playwright on her plays set in Coney Island and a marriage proposal on the beach
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Linda Zhang
Coney Island homeowner for 19 years enjoys organic gardening and walking on the boardwalk
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Olga Lozar
A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming