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Yi Xin Tong
Living in Gravesend, artist from China's Mount Lushan feels closest to home at Coney Island Creek
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Carmela
Growing up on West 16th Street between Mermaid and Neptune in a cold water flat in the 1940s and '50s
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Mindy Gress
Memories of growing up on Coney Island's first block and working in the Cyclone photobooth's darkroom
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Kai Fung
Homeowner in Coney Island's West End for almost 30 years and first member of his family to settle here
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Bill Zeidenberg
Memories of growing up on Brighton First Court and a summer job renting beach chairs in Coney Island
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Lou Nasti
Mechanical display creator who redid the tricks for Astroland's Dante's Inferno dark ride in the 1990s
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Stephen Gaffney
Artist and educator who restored the old signs and painted new ones for Paul's Daughter
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Boris Ioselev
Librarian and exhibit curator at Coney Island Library emigrated from St. Petersburg nearly 30 years ago