Filtering by Mermaid Avenue

Barbara Unterman Jones
Memories of being one of the first families to move into Gravesend Houses in 1954 and growing up there

Charles Guariglia
Memories of working a bread route on Coney Island's Mermaid Avenue in the 1950's and '60s

Steven Feinstein
Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue

Alito Hernandez
From breakdancing on the streets of Coney Island with Fresh Kids to Peter Gennaro's Street Dreams

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

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

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

Charles Berkman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law

Johanna Gargiulo Sherman
Artist and Coney Island resident recalls growing up on Mermaid Avenue above Carolina Restaurant

Louise Milano
Louise Milano's mother, Carolina, operated Carolina Restaurant on Mermaid Avenue for 60 years

Carole Scheer
Her father, Anthony Cosmo Pomaro, owned Cosmo Topper's Beauty Parlor on Mermaid Avenue