Filtering by emigration and immigration

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

Alisa Minyukova
Brooklyn artist who emigrated from Russia as a child is drawn to Ocean Parkway and Brighton Beach

Leonid Alaverdov
Tapestry artist and Coney Island resident whose work is inspired by his native Baku and New York City

Lu Zhao
Calligrapher recounts his artistic journey from China's Guangdong Province to Brooklyn's Bensonhurst

Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn

Natasha Lvovich
Moscow-born Coney Island resident, writer of creative nonfiction and fiction, and professor of English

Kai Fung
Homeowner in Coney Island's West End for almost 30 years and first member of his family to settle here

Boris Ioselev
Librarian and exhibit curator at Coney Island Library emigrated from St. Petersburg nearly 30 years ago

Anthony Wang
Resident of senior housing in Coney Island was born in Shanghai and survived the Cultural Revolution

Naum Barash
A Coney Island Polar Bear recounts his 50 years of winter swimming in Ukraine and Brooklyn

Gabriel Alegría
Jazz musician and bandleader of the Afro-Peruvian Sextet has lived in Coney Island for the past decade

Eric Safyan
Architect who grew up in Coney Island in the 1980s and designed the renovated Ruby's Bar & Grill

Mohammed Saad Ali
Actor and playwright whose new play A Lonely Night in Coney Island is set on the Boardwalk

Julio Sauce
Ecuadorian-born Gravesend resident is among NYC's fastest long-distance runners in his age category