Filtering by Coney Island Beach

Alonzo Kittrels
Memories of bus trips to Coney Island with the Good Will Family Club from the 1940's through 1961

Marie Navarro
A lifelong resident's memories of growing up in Coney Island's Gravesend Houses and Kaiser Park

Lois McLohon
Brooklynite who posed for a now iconic 1950's NY Daily News pin-up photo on Coney Island Beach

Dennis Thomas
President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for the past 12 years and a member since the 1980s

Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s

Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today

Ellen Abrams
Memories of growing up on West 29th Street and meeting her lifeguard husband on Coney Island Beach

Martin Abrams
Brooklynite who was a lifeguard in the 1950s and met his wife of 60 years on Coney Island Beach

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