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 Lloyd Handwerker’s book about his grandfather,...
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 charge of funding billions of dollars in MTA mega-projects, including the...
Nearly 450 oral histories are available for listening in the Coney Island History Project’s multilingual online archive. Among the additions in March and April are the following interviews recorded for us by Mary Conlon, Daniel Gomez, Julia Kanin, and Tricia Vita. Erum Hanif talks about her work as a Community...
Among the additions to the Coney Island History Project’s online Oral History Archive are the following interviews recorded by Amanda Deutch, Charles Denson, Kaara Baptiste, Mark Markov, Samira Tazari, and Xiaoyan Li. Please listen, share, and if you or someone you know would like to record a story, sign up...
