Oral History Archive

Filtering by Sea Gate back to all
Norman Stock
Poet who grew up in Coney Island and was one of Dr. Couney's incubator babies
Judith Densky
Memories of growing up in Coney Island and Sea Gate in the late 1940s and 1950s
Larry Marquit
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
Fred Stern
Bus driver for 35 years on the B36 route and the shuttle bus inside Sea Gate
Ellina Graypel
Singer, musician and composer who lives in Sea Gate
Joyce Chopra
Groundbreaking filmmaker grew up in Sea Gate and on Mermaid Avenue
Stanislav Baev
Coney Island resident and founder of the not-for-profit American Alliance for Protection of Animals
Jeffrey Berman
Longtime Sea Gate resident and watercolor artist who teaches at Seaside Innovative Senior Center
Olga Lozar
A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming
Hawley Hussey
Sea Gate artist, writer, educator and year-round swimmer
Edith Storch
Memories of growing up on West 36th Street in Coney Island's West End in the 1930s
Billy Blitzer
Longtime baseball scout for the Chicago Cubs and Sea Gate resident
Boris Ioselev
Librarian and exhibit curator at Coney Island Library emigrated from St. Petersburg nearly 30 years ago
Sam Moses
Sign-painting legend, musician and Sea Gate resident
Deena Metzger
Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II
Patricia Sener
Sea Gate resident and co-founder of CIBBOWS - Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers
Eva Zucker
Memories of a Yiddish literary household in 1940's and 1950's Coney Island and Sea Gate