Oral History Archive

Filtering by Bensonhurst back to all

Alfonso "Al" Smaldone

Jimmy and Tina's Famous Sausage Restaurant

Khonya Epstein

Author and leader of the Holocaust Survivors Group at Marks JCH of Bensonhurst

Lu Zhao

Calligrapher recounts his artistic journey from China's Guangdong Province to Brooklyn's Bensonhurst

Tim Law

Bilingual educator and founder of Chinese American Social Services Center in Bensonhurst

Richard Termini

Memories of growing up at Bensonhurst's Termini's Bakery and riding Coney Island's Astroland Rocket

Steve Campanella

Collector of 1950's and '60s memorabilia whose Bensonhurst home is known as the Statue House

Ansen Tang

Director of United Chinese Association of Brooklyn in Bensonhurt, Dyker Heights, and Sheepshead Bay

John Philip Capello

Mystery artist who carved faces into rocks on the shoreline at Brighton Beach

Eric Sanchez

Growing up in Coney Island and Gravesend in the 1990s and 2000s

Irina Ginzburg (Upa)

Stand-up comedian and founder of the Coney Island Comedy Festival

Stanislav Baev

Coney Island resident and founder of the not-for-profit American Alliance for Protection of Animals

Gina Femia

Brooklyn-born playwright on her plays set in Coney Island and a marriage proposal on the beach

Xin Song

Artist who used traditional Chinese paper cutting to create public art in Bay Parkway subway station

Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte

Owners of Bensonhurst's SAS Italian Records, founded in the 1960s

Marina Rubin

Ukrainian emigre writer and author of Stealing Cherries, a collection of flash fiction

Tatyana Panteleyeva

From Tbilisi, Georgia to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn