Filtering by English

Kai Fung
Homeowner in Coney Island's West End for almost 30 years and first member of his family to settle here

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

Lou Nasti
Mechanical display creator who redid the tricks for Astroland's Dante's Inferno dark ride in the 1990s

Stephen Gaffney
Artist and educator who restored the old signs and painted new ones for Paul's Daughter

Boris Ioselev
Librarian and exhibit curator at Coney Island Library emigrated from St. Petersburg nearly 30 years ago

Van Milana
Grandson of sword swallower Joseph "Ajax" Milana and DeWise Purdin "The Handless Sharpshooter"

Hyeyoung Kim and Michael Cooper
Composer and lyricist of Luna Park, a musical, on chronicling the partnership of Thompson and Dundy

Don Ferris
Carpenter, mechanic, and showman who started his career operating roller coasters and road attractions

Karen Dawn Blondel
Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s

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