Oral History Archive

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Amparo Garcia

Lifelong Brighton Beach resident shares stories of Brighton Beach then and now

Jerry Omanoff

Memories of living in Coney Island from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s

Frieda Schwelke

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962

Fred Stern

Bus driver for 35 years on the B36 route and the shuttle bus inside Sea Gate

Alan Kirschenbaum

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses in the 1950s and early '60s

Rena Stutman Rice

Memories of growing up in Brighton Beach in the 1950s and '60s

Arlene Oken Straus

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and '70s

Joyce Chopra

Groundbreaking filmmaker grew up in Sea Gate and on Mermaid Avenue

Olga Martynchuk

Mother of professional boxing star Nikita Ababiy

Jeffrey Berman

Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School's Art Squad

George Ancona

The art of growing up Mexican American in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Billy Blitzer

Longtime baseball scout for the Chicago Cubs and Sea Gate resident

Andy Fuhrman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses and on Mermaid Avenue in the 1950s and '60s

Charles Berkman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law

Dionne Brown (D.L. Jordan)

Lifelong Coney Island resident and author of Living Life Like It's Golden

George Rudes

Clothing company CEO George Rudes grew up in the shadow of the Half Moon Hotel

Steve Larkin

Memories of working at a Coney Island beach chair and umbrella rental company as a teen in the 1970s