We’re sad to learn that our friend Michael Goldstein, known as “Looch,” passed away on December 16 at the age of 78 in North Carolina after heart surgery. A longtime game operator on Coney Island’s Bowery, he started out in 1954 as a 12-year-old, earning 75 cents an hour, and...

RIP Stewart “Stewie” Glass, Coney Island game operator for the past 50+ years. He passed away after suffering a heart attack. For the past two seasons, Stewie ran a balloon game on the Bowery. The basketball game in Charles Denson’s 2007 portrait was in the Grashorn Building on Surf. A...