Oral History Archive

Mary Engel

Filmmaker and archivist whose parents collaborated on the film Little Fugitive in Coney Island

Judith Densky

Memories of growing up in Coney Island and Sea Gate in the late 1940s and 1950s

Larry Marquit

Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s

Stella Bacolas

Growing up in Greece and living in Coney Island's Luna Park Houses since the 1970s

Mort Shatzkin

Memories of growing up in Coney Island and the family business, Shatzkin's Famous Knishes

Sofya Dudnik

Embroidery artist and Coney Island resident who emigrated from Moscow in 2010

Ben Roubin

Memories of growing up at Villanova Court, a bungalow resort in Coney Island, in the 1950s and '60s

Tina Mednicoff Smokler

Growing up in Coney Island and being elected to Leon Friend's Art Squad at Lincoln High School

Ronald Kannatt (The Prince of Coney Island)

Twenty years at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park's Karaoke on the Boardwalk

Irwin Temkin

Growing up in Coney Island and how learning French at Lincoln High School influenced his life

Diana Wiener

Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s

Stuart Waldman

Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and fun summer jobs

Angela Kravtchenko

Architect who is a Coney Island resident and a community activist

JR Lopez

Memories of growing up on West 35th Street in Coney Island in the 1990s

Sofya Lobova

A longtime resident of Haber Houses and leader of the Russian-speaking community

Kathy Fenyves

Memories of growing up in the newly opened Luna Park Houses in the 1960s and 1970s

Sonia Solano

Reflections on raising a family and working in Coney Island in the 1990s and 2000s

Karen Wilcox

Memories of living in Luna Park Houses and going to Coney Island bathhouses in the 1960s