
Irene Karas
Sea Gate resident on her girlhood memories of Coney Island and passing them on to her daughter

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

Susan Meyer
Memories of growing up in the 1940s and '50s in a tight-knit Jewish community in Coney Island

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

Michael Goldstein (Looch)
Memories of growing up on Mermaid Avenue and working games in Coney Island from age twelve

Lola Glass (Lola the Illustrator)
A nine-year-old artist whose favorite place is Coney Island paints a mural at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park

Father Eugene Pappas
On growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and the history of Greek-American businesses in the area

Jeffrey L. Wilson
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1980s and '90s and Faber's Fascination Arcade

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

Jeffrey Eisenmesser
Former teacher at Mark Twain Junior High School recalls his Coney Island memories