More than 500 oral histories are available for listening in the Coney Island History Project’s multilingual online archive. Among the recent additions are the following interviews recorded by Charles Denson and Tricia Vita.
Fifty years ago this...
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Charles Denson, director of the Coney Island History Project, has recently launched a Substack about Coney Island. You can read and subscribe for free at coneyologist.substack.com. His latest post is a remembrance of Harry James Faulkner, who died...
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We're happy to announce that the Coney Island History Project is extending its 2025 exhibition center season past Labor Day Weekend! The exhibit center will remain open free of charge on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-7 PM through September 28th....
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Happy National Hot Dog Day! In this early photo of Nathan's you can see the original logo created for the store by Coney Island sign painter Harry Wildman (1875-1930). His credit "Wildman Co." is beneath the logo and we've circled it in red. In...
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In an oral history newly published by the Coney Island History Project, Anthony D’Amico tells the secret inside story of how Coney Island’s $350 million dollar Stillwell Avenue Terminal came into being. D'Amico was the Chief Financial Officer in...
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The never-ending intrigue surrounding the Coney Casino project is beginning to resemble an episode of The Sopranos. Patricia Lynch, a notoriously shady Albany lobbyist hired by the Coney Casino crew, is targeting Coney Island’s Councilmember...
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Next Thursday, June 12, at 11 AM, the New York City Council's Land Use Committee will hold a hearing about the Coney casino developer's proposal to de-map public streets and acquire air rights to build sky bridges and a hotel twice the height...
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Brooklyn Borough President Riegelmann, holding rope, opened the Boardwalk and new streets in 1923. CIHP photo illustration
A century ago, Coney Island’s shoreline was private and fenced off to the public and a fee had to be paid to access the...
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Conceptual rendering of Coney Island Master Plan released in 2007 by the Bloomberg administration in the lead-up to the 2009 rezoning shows residential towers north and west of the ballpark including on the parking lot (Parcel A). Credit: Holm...
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Developer's rendering of the massive casino proposed for Surf Avenue at West 12th Street.
Don’t believe the dramatic renderings and gleeful promises presented by the Coney Casino developers. What they’re actually planning is the destruction of...
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