Oral History Archive

Filtering by West 33rd Street back to all

Ronald Stewart

Community activist and resident of Coney Island for more than 50 years

Jerry Omanoff

Memories of living in Coney Island from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s

Tony Williams

Growing up in Coney Island as a teenager in the 1960s and '70s

Joyce Chopra

Groundbreaking filmmaker grew up in Sea Gate and on Mermaid Avenue

Robert Whitney

Memories of a gorilla show, a bungalow colony, and an underground city beside the beach

Al Burgo

Memories of growing up on West 33rd Street in Coney Island and working on the Boardwalk in the 1960s