Filtering by English

Deena Metzger
Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II

Jay Green (Gerald Greenberg)
Three-time International Jugglers Association champion and resident of Southern Brooklyn

Marian Carbone and Anna Jackson
Memories of riding the Parachute Jump and Steeplechase horse race ride in the 1950s

Chris "Daze" Ellis
Artist whose Coney Island-themed work includes solo and community murals at Coney Art Walls

Teresa Genaro
Reflections on the history of horse racing in Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Andy Fuhrman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses and on Mermaid Avenue in the 1950s and '60s

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

Susan Meyer
Memories of growing up in the 1940s and '50s in a tight-knit Jewish community in Coney Island

Gabriel Alegría
Jazz musician and bandleader of the Afro-Peruvian Sextet has lived in Coney Island for the past decade

Eric Safyan
Architect who grew up in Coney Island in the 1980s and designed the renovated Ruby's Bar & Grill

Michael Goldstein (Looch)
Memories of growing up on Mermaid Avenue and working games in Coney Island from age twelve

Lola Glass (Lola the Illustrator)
A nine-year-old artist whose favorite place is Coney Island paints a mural at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park

Father Eugene Pappas
On growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and the history of Greek-American businesses in the area

Jeffrey L. Wilson
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1980s and '90s and Faber's Fascination Arcade