Share and preserve your memories by recording an oral history with the Coney Island History Project. We are recording audio interviews in English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and other languages with people who live or work – past or present – in Coney Island and adjacent Southern Brooklyn neighborhoods or have...

The Coney Island History Project is seeking part-time interviewers to conduct audio interviews for an oral history project in the Southern Brooklyn neighborhoods of Coney Island, Bensonhurst and Gravesend. Interviewers must have professional or academic training and experience in oral history, interviewing or radio reporting. They will conduct, record and...

Italian immigrants celebrating the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on the beach with Antonetta DelCore, “Queen of Coney Island” from the 1940s until her death in 1973. Today as always, visitors of every age, race, color, and country of origin mingle on Coney Island’s beach and boardwalk. In the...