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Share and preserve your Coney Island memories by recording an interview in person or over the phone. We are also recording interviews, both in English and other languages, with immigrants who live or work in Southern Brooklyn.

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Places

1205 Surf Avenue (Red Doors Bar & Grill)

1221 Bowery (Tacos Doña Zita)

1229 Riegelmann Boardwalk (Tom's Coney Island)

1318 Surf Avenue (Williams Candy)

1409 Mermaid Avenue (Carolina Restaurant)

1421 Neptune Avenue (Larry's Auto Radiator Repair)

1521 Surf Avenue (Footprints)

1524 Neptune Avenue (Totonno's Pizzeria)

1618 Mermaid Avenue (Astella Development)

1621 Mermaid Avenue (Mermaid Prime Meats)

1718 Mermaid Avenue (Urban Neighborhood Services, Inc.)

2110 Mermaid Avenue (Santos White Community Garden)

212 Brighton First Court

2201 Neptune Avenue (New York Bread)

2302 Mermaid Avenue (J & R Pharmacy)

2762 West 36th Street

2769 West 5th Street

2812 Stillwell Avenue

2856 Stillwell Avenue

2865 West 19th Street (Liberation Diploma Plus High School)

2872 West 29th Street

2875 West 8th Street (Coney Shack)

2879 West 24th Street (Coney Island Hook and Bait Shop)

2896 West 12th Street (New York Fencing Academy)

2907 Mermaid Avenue (Rosenberg's Deli)

2911 West 15th Street (Gargiulo's Restaurant)

2943 Stillwell Avenue (Kebab Garden)

2955 West 24th Street (Carey Gardens)

3029 West 24th Street

3703 Mermaid Avenue (Mermaid Spa)

3755 Oceanic Avenue

442 Neptune Avenue

55 Railroad Avenue

5D Cinema

7113 18th Avenue (SAS Italian Records)

Abraham Lincoln High School

Asser Levy Park

Astroland

Astroland Arcade

Astroland Rocket

Astroland Shooting Gallery

Astrotower, The

Baby Incubator Building

Bay Parkway subway station

Belarus

Bonomo's Original Salt Water Taffy

Bread and Puppet Theater

Brighton Ballet Theater

Brighton First Court

Brightwater Towers

Brooklyn Chinese-American Association

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn Technical High School

Calvert Vaux Park

Caterpillar, The

Cha Cha's

Childs Building, The (Boardwalk)

Childs Restaurant (Boardwalk)

Coney Art Walls

Coney Island Beach

Coney Island Creek

Coney Island Handball Courts

Coney Island Hook and Bait Shop

Coney Island Hospital

Coney Island Houses

Coney Island Library

Coney Island Overhaul and Repair Shop

Coney Island USA

Dante's Inferno (Astroland)

Denny's Ice Cream

Deno's Sweet Shoppe

Deno's Wonder Wheel Park

Dick's Candy Store

Dreamland (1904-1911)

Ecuador

Edna Cohen School P.S. 90

Edward R. Murrow High School

Eldorado Arcade

Eldorado Auto Skooters

Enrico Caruso Museum

Faber's Fascination

Faber's Sportsland Arcade

Feltmans

Feltmans Restaurant

Footprints

Gargiulo's Restaurant

Genesis Repertory

Granville T. Woods Way

Grashorn Building

Gravesend

Gravesend Houses

Gregory & Paul's

Grimaldo's Chair

Haber House Senior Center

Half Moon Hotel

Harbor Hospital

Henderson's Walk

Hong Kong

House of Horrors

I.S. 303 Herbert S. Eisenberg

Infant Incubators (in Dreamland)

Infant Incubators (in Luna Park)

Jamaica

John Dewey High School

Jones Walk

Kingsborough Community College

LA Thompson Scenic Railway

Lafayette High School

Larry and Vinny's Pizza

Levy's Bar and Grill

Liberation Diploma Plus High School

Lido Bar

Lido Pool

Lido Speed Boats

Loews Shore Theater

Lola Star Boutique (Stillwell Terminal)

Luna Park (1903 - 1944)

Luna Park (2010 -

Luna Park (Melbourne, Australia)

Luna Park Houses

Magic Carpet Fun House

Mark Twain Intermediate School 239

Marks JCH of Bensonhurst

Marlboro Housing Projects

Mermaid Theater

Mexico

Mezzo Pastry Shop

Mique's Bar & Grill

Moscow

Murray Zaret's Animal Nursery

Musik Express, The

Napoli Seven Seas

Nathan's Famous

Neptune Diving Bells

New York Aquarium

O'Dwyer Gardens

Ocean Tide Baths

One Neptune Terrace

Our Lady of Grace

Our Lady of Solace

P.S. 100 Elementary School

Paul's Daughter

Peluso Machine and Iron Works

Peru

Playland

Public School 188

Public School 225

Ravenhall Baths

Resurrection Side Show

RKO Tilyou Theater

Rosenberg's Deli

Ruby's Old Tyme Bar & Grill

Sea Gate

Sea Gate Beach 3

Sea Rise Apartments

Seaside Innovative Senior Center

Shamrock Irish House

Sheepshead Bay Race Track

Shoot the Chutes (Dreamland)

Skee Ball and Skee Roll

Sodamat

Spookhouse

Star Penny Arcade

Steeplechase Beer Garden

Steeplechase Park

Steeplechase Park Pool

Steeplechase Pier

Stella's

Steve's Grill House

Stillwell Avenue

Stillwell Avenue subway terminal

Stubbman Carousel

Surf Avenue Boys Club

Surf Avenue Entrance (Luna Park (1903 - 1944)

Surf Bowling Lanes

Surf Hotel

Surfside Gardens

Surfside School P.S. 329

Tacos Doña Zita

Three Hierarchs Greek Orthodox Church

Thunderbolt, The (1925-2000)

Thunderbolt, The (2014-

Tirza's Wine Bath

Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitana

Trip to the Moon (Ride)

Tunnel of Laffs

Tunnels of Love

Ukraine

Vietnam

Viola Pigeon Club

Warbasse Houses

Washington Baths

West 15th Street

West 16th Street

West 17th Street

West 19th Street

West 20th Street

West 24th Street

West 28th Street

West 29th Street

West 30th Street

West 31st Street

West 32nd Street

West 33rd Street

West 35th Street

West 36th Street

West 5th Street

West 8th Street

West End

Wild Mouse, The

World In Wax Musee

Period

Themes

actors

amusement arcades

amusement games

amusement parks

amusement rides

arcades

architects

artists

attorneys

bakeries

bars

baseball

bathhouses

beach chair rental

beaches

boardwalks

boxers

bungalows

burlesque

carousels

citizen participation

community activism

community development

community gardens

community liaison

community organizations

Coney Island Polar Bear Club

crime

cyclops

dancing

dark rides

diving

economic development

educators

emigration and immigration

fencing

filmmakers

fires

fishermen

fishing

food

franks

fun houses

gangs

handball

health facilities

Holocaust Survivors Group

hot dog eating contest

hot dogs

hotels

housing

Human Resource Administration (HRA)

hurricanes

infants

inventors

It's My Estuary Day

jazz

juggling

kites

libraries

lifeguards

machinists

Mardi Gras

music

musical theater

nonprofit organizations

parades

pharmacies

physicians

poets

Polar Bear Plunge

police

pony rides

racetracks

roller coasters

running

salt-water pool

seniors (older people)

shooting galleries

sideshows

signage

signs

singers

souvenirs

sports

stickball

stores

strongmen

subway

subway stations

swimming

sword swallowers

synagogues

tacos

tai chi

tattoos

theaters

theatrical productions

Transport Workers Union

wellness

winter swimming

world wars

writers

Yiddish language

yoga

Languages

Chinese

English

Italian

Russian

Spanish

Turkish

Filtering by Mardi Gras back to all

Steve Burke

Memories of working at Coney Island's pony track as a boy in the 1940s for "no pay, just tips"

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