Oral History Archive

Filtering by bungalows back to all

Keith Suber

Community activist and reformed gang member

Zohra Saed

Poet and writer from Afghanistan who grew up in Southern Brooklyn

Ronald Stewart

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

Theresa Veldez

Bungalows and fires in the West End in the 1960s

Sheldon Krimsky

Memories of growing up on West 29th Street in Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s

Anne Green

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Esther Delgado

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

Robert Whitney

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

Karen Dawn Blondel

Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and '70s

Kathy Duke O'Melia

Girlhood memories of summering in a Coney Island bungalow in the 1950s

Tommy Smith

Grew up in a Coney Island bungalow

Betty Fair

Lifelong Coney Island resident

Lennie Fogel

Son of West End and Sea Gate shopkeepers in the 1940's and 50's