Filtering by 2010 - 2019
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Hyeyoung Kim and Michael Cooper
Composer and lyricist of Luna Park, a musical, on chronicling the partnership of Thompson and Dundy
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Jay Green (Gerald Greenberg)
Three-time International Jugglers Association champion and resident of Southern Brooklyn
![Daze in his studio. Photo © Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6393/images/2017-08-28_005.jpg?itok=zo2I2TpF&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Chris "Daze" Ellis
Artist whose Coney Island-themed work includes solo and community murals at Coney Art Walls
![Irene Karas](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6197/images/irene_karris_5810.jpg?itok=bveDy30v&c=4a89c0dcb924551246e7edafb7550336)
Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter
![Photo courtesy of Gabriel Alegría](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6283/images/gabrielalegria.jpg?itok=eJg4gPoe)
Gabriel Alegría
Jazz musician and bandleader of the Afro-Peruvian Sextet has lived in Coney Island for the past decade
![Photo courtesy of Eric Safyan](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5821/images/eric_safyan_1_0.jpg?itok=p3tj-UFV&c=0a69988fbddb35e0592185427acca9b1)
Eric Safyan
Architect who grew up in Coney Island in the 1980s and designed the renovated Ruby's Bar & Grill
![Lola the Illustrator with her new mural "Coney Wonders."](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6177/images/2017-08-11015a.jpg?itok=9In96TFE&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
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 Pappas hosts a radio program, “Matters of Conscience” on WNYE COSMOS FM at 91.5 every Saturday at 1:15PM. Photo courtesy of COSMOS FM](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6151/images/father_pappas_cosmos_fm.jpg?itok=gohzIbU5&c=59e95d6993d55339b518572cb12627f3)
Father Eugene Pappas
On growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and the history of Greek-American businesses in the area
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Mathylde Frontus
On growing up in Coney Island and founding the nonprofit Urban Neighborhood Services
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Mohammed Saad Ali
Actor and playwright whose new play A Lonely Night in Coney Island is set on the Boardwalk
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Joel Zika
The founder of the Dark Ride Project on documenting Spook-A-Rama and other historic dark rides