Filtering by beaches

Jeanette Bigelson
At age 103, Coney Island resident shares her memories and secrets to a long and happy life

Gabriel Valencia
Twenty-five years at Gregory & Paul's and Paul's Daughter on the Coney Island Boardwalk

Connie Scacciaferro
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930's and a teenager in the '40s

Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s

Karen Wilcox
Memories of living in Luna Park Houses and going to Coney Island bathhouses in the 1960s

Tymell Murphy
Professional basketball player and author of a book of poems and stories who grew up in Coney Island

Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today

Ellen Abrams
Memories of growing up on West 29th Street and meeting her lifeguard husband on Coney Island Beach

Tara Altebrando
Author of Dreamland Social Club, a novel set in Coney Island, who got engaged on the Wonder Wheel

Martin Abrams
Brooklynite who was a lifeguard in the 1950s and met his wife of 60 years on Coney Island Beach