Filtering by Mermaid Avenue

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

Orlando Mendez
Growing up in Coney Island in the 1970s and being the third generation of his family to live here today

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

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

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