Filtering by 2010 - 2019

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

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

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