Filtering by Brighton Beach
![Alisa Minyukova. Photo by Isak Tiner. Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9139/images/img_2902_alissa_border_crop.jpg?itok=9A1iuh96&c=82b87e2ac3424324cb0e184f9c45d026)
Alisa Minyukova
Brooklyn artist who emigrated from Russia as a child is drawn to Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach
![Yeva Novik, 2019. Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8510/images/yeva_novik_1_.jpg?itok=-LZKnkqr)
Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn
![Photo courtesy of Alexander Vindman](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10866/images/alexander_vindman.jpg?itok=NyO5xdsY&c=b5169ca88906d08eb303c59af50f199d)
Alexander Vindman
Retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who emigrated from Ukraine to Brighton Beach as a child
![Photo Courtesy of Nasim Almuntaser](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10100/images/nasim_almuntaser.jpg?itok=jNETckh6&c=8853792c05e070059bf2078536d0a2f4)
Nasim Almuntaser
Brooklyn College history student grew up working in his family's bodega in Brighton Beach
![Sheila with her sister Sally on the beach in Coney Island. The caption says: Two bathing beauties? Freckle puss and pickle puss. "She wrote the caption being 15 years older than I was then." Photo courtesy of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8446/images/sheila_levrant_de_bretteville_6.jpg?itok=2jJ-spMA)
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School's Art Squad
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Bill Zeidenberg
Memories of growing up on Brighton First Court and a summer job renting beach chairs in Coney Island