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
Irwin Temkin
Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life
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