Filtering by emigration and immigration

Ansen Tang
Director of United Chinese Association of Brooklyn in Bensonhurt, Dyker Heights, and Sheepshead Bay

Nasim Almuntaser
Brooklyn College history student grew up working in his family's bodega in Brighton Beach

Linda Zhang
Coney Island homeowner for 19 years enjoys organic gardening and walking on the boardwalk

Olga Lozar
A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming

Xin Song
Artist who used traditional Chinese paper cutting to create public art in Bay Parkway subway station

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

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