Filtering by O'Dwyer Gardens
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Shavon Meyers
A poet and storyteller on growing up in Coney Island at Gravesend Houses, the beach and Astroland
![Leonid Alaverdov at Kings Bay Library, 2020. Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9040/images/img_20200215_150753.jpg?itok=glRzxMJN&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Leonid Alaverdov
Tapestry artist and Coney Island resident whose work is inspired by his native Baku and New York City
![Photo courtesy of Irwin Temkin](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10848/images/irwin_temkin_french_art_theatre_2.jpg?itok=LaEJlIqQ&c=79df2a5103e04ab5e570a2a78a900c39)
Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life
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Orlando Mendez
Growing up in Coney Island in the 1970s and being the third generation of his family to live here today