Filtering by hurricanes

Steven Feinstein
Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue

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

Ahmed Hussain
Memories of a boyhood helping out in his family's store in Coney Island and learning to play pinball

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

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

Mathylde Frontus
On growing up in Coney Island and founding the nonprofit Urban Neighborhood Services

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

Theresa Giovinni
Coney Island resident who moved here as a high school student talks about her neighborhood

Levent Demirgil
Turkish store owner returns to Coney Island as restaurateur three years after Hurricane Sandy