Oral History Archive

Filtering by Bensonhurst back to all
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
Silvana, Adrianne and Silverio Conte, owners of 51-year-old SAS Italian Records in Bensonhurst
Marina Rubin
Ukrainian emigre writer and author of Stealing Cherries, a collection of flash fiction
Tatyana Panteleyeva
From Tbilisi, Georgia to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn