Filtering by emigration and immigration

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

Zinovy Pritsker
Musician and founder of a jazz big band recounts his journey from Leningrad to Southern Brooklyn

Viktor Vassiliev
New York Bread co-owner talks about baking 30 different kinds of Russian bread in Coney Island

Dalia Vazquez and Raymundo Bardomiano
Dalia Vazquez and Raymundo Bardomiano own Tacos Doña Zita on Coney Island's Bowery

Aisuluu Sartbaeva
Journalist and PTA President of I.S. 303 moved to Coney Island from Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia

Gabriel Valencia
Twenty years as part of the family at Gregory & Paul's and Paul's Daughter on the Coney Island Boardwalk

Abiodun Bello
A Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the health benefits and natural high of winter swimming

Basil Jones
Jamaican-born chef at Footprints Caribbean Cafe in Coney Island and originator of Rasta Pasta

Slava Polishchuk
Russian-born artist preserves the past as book and paper conservator at Brooklyn College Library

Hector George Wallace
An immigrant sign painter recounts his journey from Jamaica and the UK to Coney Island.