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Summer is not over! We’re happy to announce an extended season for the Wonder Gallery and the Coney Island History Project. Our free exhibits will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 1-7 PM through October 11th. View this season’s special exhibits curated by Charles Denson and Amanda Deutch in our Wonder Gallery, a collaboration with Parachute Literary Arts. Wonder Gallery tees and signed copies of Charles Denson’s Wild Ride: A Coney Island Roller Coaster Family and Amanda Deutch’s New York Ironweed are available in our gift shop. Read more about Amanda’s book here. Many thanks to Brooklyn Eagle, BK Reader,...

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Featured Oral History Interviews

Reflections on running Wilensky Hardware, a 100-year-old family business on Mermaid Avenue
Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930’s and a teenager in the ’40s
President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for the past 12 years and a member since the 1980s
Russian Orthodox priest at Coney Island’s St. John of Kronstadt Chapel for the Homeless
At age 103, Coney Island resident shares her memories and secrets to a long and happy life
Memories of a boyhood helping out in his family’s store in Coney Island and learning to play pinball

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Featured Video

New on our YouTube channel: Charles Denson’s Mermaid Avenue in the 1950′s brings together photos from the Coney Island History Project Collection and the voices of Michael “Looch” Goldstein and Stanley Fox. They grew up at opposite ends of Mermaid Avenue and recorded their memories of the Avenue in the 1950s for the Coney Island History Project Oral History Archive. Goldstein and Fox operated businesses in Coney Island’s amusement area for over 60 years. Listen to their stories and those of Jimmy Prince of Major Meats and Steven Feinstein of Wilensky Hardware,  whose Mermaid Avenue businesses survived  into the 21st century.  Major Meats closed when Jimmy retired in 2009.  Wilensky Hardware is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2020.   You’re invited to share your Coney Island memories at coneyislandhistory.org/oral-history-archive.

Hall of Fame

Inventors, performers, impresarios, and community leaders – these are among the many pioneers and visionaries whose creativity and ingenuity helped shape and define Coney Island over the past century. Each year, the Coney Island Hall of Fame pays tribute to a selected group of honorees. Their contributions are highlighted in an exhibit of colorful banners accompanied by illustrated text panels detailing their fascinating lives.

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