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Abiodun Bello
A Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the health benefits and natural high of winter swimming

Basil Jones
Jamaican-born chef at Footprints Caribbean Cafe in Coney Island and originator of Rasta Pasta

Theresa Giovinni
Coney Island resident who moved here as a high school student talks about her neighborhood

Slava Polishchuk
Russian-born artist preserves the past as book and paper conservator at Brooklyn College Library

Mary Loretta Hood
Mary Hood came to Coney Island as a child and worked on the Bowery well into her 90s

Judge Steve Arniotes
The story behind the Boardwalk Lido Restaurant and the family who operated it from 1927 until 1960

Hector George Wallace
An immigrant sign painter recounts his journey from Jamaica and the UK to Coney Island.

Carmen Arcendiga
Memories of family picnics under the Boardwalk and making new memories at Spook-A-Rama

Jodie Bell
Jodie Bell discovers a 1950s photograph of her aunt as Miss Coney Island at the History Project

Levent Demirgil
Turkish store owner returns to Coney Island as restaurateur three years after Hurricane Sandy