Filtering by beaches

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

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

Bill Zeidenberg
Memories of growing up on Brighton First Court and a summer job renting beach chairs in Coney Island

Dionne Brown (D.L. Jordan)
Lifelong Coney Island resident and author of Living Life Like It's Golden

Steve Larkin
Memories of working at a Coney Island beach chair and umbrella rental company as a teen in the 1970s