Filtering by West 16th Street
![Greg Birbil as a boy with his sisters Katina and Fevronia. Photo by Tilyou Studio Photographers. Courtesy of Greg Birbil.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9484/images/birbil_3_1.jpg?itok=MLrr7WLV)
Greg Birbil
Greg Birbil's father, Paul, was a candy maker who owned the Paradise Ice Cream Parlor on Surf Avenue
![Photo courtesy of Richard Glazer Danay](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8787/images/richard_glazer_danay_2.jpg?itok=rEEqjLcA&c=a27d57f7a2fb9e2e42b97fb51b21e0ff)
Richard Glazer-Danay
Artist who grew up in Coney Island and whose artwork celebrates his Mohawk iron worker ancestry
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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
![Photo courtesy of Alito Hernandez](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7741/images/aliton_walls.jpg?itok=6pZChJOS&c=f9119d648b27115b22343be6f02409c3)
Alito Hernandez
From breakdancing on the streets of Coney Island with Fresh Kids to Peter Gennaro's Street Dreams
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Carmela
Growing up on West 16th Street between Mermaid and Neptune in a cold water flat in the 1940s and '50s