Samira Tazari

Memories of Coney Island in the 1920s and ’30s

Founder and principal of Coney Island’s Liberation Diploma Plus High School

Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School’s Art Squad

Memories of growing up in Coney Island Houses in the 1980s and ’90s

Memories of going to Coney Island Beach as a child in the 1930’s and a teenager in the ’40s

Lifelong stickball player and Coney Island lifeguard for 48 years

Harry Delgado, “Stretch,” and Larye Mcsheppard share fishing stories

Artist and educator who restored the old signs and painted new ones for Paul’s Daughter

Composer and lyricist of Luna Park, a musical, on chronicling the partnership of Thompson and Dundy

Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II

Memories of growing up in the 1940s and ’50s in a tight-knit Jewish community in Coney Island

A nine-year-old artist whose favorite place is Coney Island paints a mural at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park

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