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

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

Peter Spanakos

Founder of the Sea Gate Historical Society

Michele Forsten

Lived in Luna Park Housing in the 1960's