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

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

Bill Zeidenberg
Memories of growing up on Brighton First Court and a summer job renting beach chairs in Coney Island

Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter

Gladys Sandman and Lucille daCosta
Girlhood memories of growing up on West 5th Street in Coney Island before being displaced by Warbasse

Al Burgo
Memories of growing up on West 33rd Street in Coney Island and working on the Boardwalk in the 1960s

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

Kite Flyers at Coney Island Kite Festival
Kite flyers Billy Echeverria, Nicholas Rowe, Kurtis Jones and Charles Stewart at Coney Island's Kite Festival