Filtering by hurricanes
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Anthony Wang
Resident of senior housing in Coney Island was born in Shanghai and survived the Cultural Revolution
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Steven Feinstein
Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue
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Ahmed Hussain
Memories of a boyhood helping out in his family's store in Coney Island and learning to play pinball
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Olga Lozar
A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming
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Gabriel Alegría
Jazz musician and bandleader of the Afro-Peruvian Sextet has lived in Coney Island for the past decade
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Mathylde Frontus
On growing up in Coney Island and founding the nonprofit Urban Neighborhood Services