"Touro Honors Retiring Officials", Five Towns Jewish Times, June 25, 2015. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Originally from Coney Island, Dr. Sexter said that he never planned to specialize in medical programs."
"Don Snyder, 76, artistic photog shot Coney, Leary", The Villager, September 15, 2010. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Born in Brooklyn in 1934, Snyder began to photograph the raffish world of Coney Island as a teenager and attached himself to photographers whose work he admired."
A Kid From Coney Island, Apple TV. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Coney Island, New York is famous for a few things: Nathan's Hot Dogs, Spike Lee's He Got Game. and a kid from the housing projects named Stephon Marbury."
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Mindfulness Room Design 2015 – present, awecosocial.com. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Larry Rosenberg, a renowned scholar mindfulness practice comes from Coney Island, Brooklyn."
Berman, John S.; Museum of the City of New York (2003). Coney Island. Portraits of America. Barnes and Noble Books. ISBN978-0-7607-3887-0. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
Weinstein, Stephen (2000). "Brighton Beach". In Jackson, Kenneth T.; Keller, Lisa; Flood, Nancy (eds.). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New York, NY, and New Haven, CT, US: The New York Historical Society and Yale University Press. pp. 139–140. ISBN0-300-11465-6. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
Rabinovitz, Lauren (2004). "The Coney Island Comedies". In Charlie Keil, Shelley Stamp (ed.). American cinema's transitional era: audiences, institutions, practices (illustrated ed.). University of California Press. ISBN978-0-520-24027-8.
Bredderman, Will. "Gilbert Gottfried shows his range", Brooklyn Paper, October 15, 2012. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Will Bredderman: So you're a Brooklyn native, right? Which neighborhood? Gilbert Gottfried: Coney Island, that was where I was born. Then we moved to Crown Heights, then Borough Park."
Tracy, Thomas. "Rena Kanokogi, judo pioneer, dies", Brooklyn Paper, November 30, 2009. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Through it all, however, she never strayed too far from her Brooklyn roots. She ultimately left Coney Island, only to move into nearby Sheepshead Bay, friends recalled."
Spellen, Suzanne. "Walkabout: Miss Dillon's Gas Company", Brownstoner, June 24, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Also in Brooklyn as the new century progressed, lived a young woman named Mary E. Dillon. Miss Dillon was a senior at Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush. She lived on Coney Island, and was the second oldest of twelve children."
George C. Tilyou; Founder of Steeplechase, Coney Island History Project. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Tilyou came with his parents to Coney Island in 1865 at the tender age of three. His father, Peter, opened a small wooden bathhouse and restaurant on the beach, and young George was soon selling bottles of souvenir sand to visitors."
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Dornhelm, Richard B. (September 25, 2003). "The Coney Island Public Beach and Boardwalk Improvement of 1923". Urban Beaches. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers. pp. 52–63. doi:10.1061/40682(2003)6. ISBN978-0-7844-0682-3.
Ayisha Siddiqa, Fossil Free University. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Ayisha Siddiqa Ayisha Siddiqa is a 21-year-old Pakistani Climate justice advocate living in Coney Island, NY, a coastal area highly prone to hurricanes and floods."
McCormack, Jeannie. "Remembering Artist Marty Greenbaum (1934–2020)", Gallery and Studio, January 3, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2024. "On reading Marty's narrative/bio we learn that he grew up in Coney Island where he worked summers in the Penny Arcades, and was inspired by the carnival atmosphere which he reflected in his work throughout his life."
Washington, Eric K. The Gotham Center for New York City History.The Gotham Center for New York City History, December 17, 2013. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Although ancient Lenape Indians once called it the 'land without shadows,' Coney Island would perfectly suit one artist who made shadows his stock in trade. E.J. Perry was a king of keepsakes."
Douglass, Harvey (March 23, 1933). "Coney Island Scenes Shift, Never Change". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved March 23, 2016 – via Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com.
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Greenbaum, Clarence (June 12, 1953). "That Hot Dog Flavor To Remain at Coney". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 1. Retrieved July 27, 2018 – via Brooklyn Public Library; newspapers.com.
Weber, Bruce. "Gene Feist, Founder of Roundabout Theater Company, Dies at 91", The New York Times, March 22, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Eugene Feist was born on Jan. 16, 1923, in Brooklyn and grew up in the rugged Coney Island neighborhood, where his father, Henry, who was called Hennie, owned a bar known as the Bucket of Blood and where young Gene was something of an outcast for his interest in books."
Fernandez, Manny; Schmidt, Michael S. "At a Mighty 104, Gone While Still Going Strong", The New York Times, January 11, 2010. Accessed January 1, 2024. "He later boxed under the name Kid Dundee, became a Coney Island performer, worked as a longshoreman, fought in World War II and had a bit part in On the Waterfront that never made the film, not necessarily in that order."
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"M.C. Illions Dies; Carousel Maker", The New York Times, August 14, 1949. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Marcus Charles Illions of 2836 West Eight Street, Coney Island, a wood carver and maker of carousels, died Thursday in Brooklyn Hospital, after a brief illness."
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Fox, Killian. "Photographer Harold Feinstein, the unsung chronicler of Coney Island", The Guardian, May 5, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2024. "It began with a great outpouring of images. At 15, Harold Feinstein borrowed his neighbour's Rolleiflex camera and started shooting scenes of everyday life on the streets and boardwalks of south Brooklyn. The year was 1946 and Coney Island, where Feinstein grew up, was still popular with New Yorkers, who flocked to its amusement parks and beaches in the summertime to let their hair down."
"Burt Topper, 78, filmmaker", Variety, April 4, 2007. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Born in Coney Island, NY, Topper moved to L.A. at the age of 8, and served in the Navy during WWII."
Bud Abbott, Hollywood Walk of Fame.Accessed January 1, 2024. "His parents worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus: his mother, Rae, was a bareback rider and his father, Harry, was an advance man. Abbott dropped out of school as a child and began working at Coney Island."
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Holley, Joe. "Teachers Union Chief Sandra Feldman", The Washington Post, September 20, 2005. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Sandra Feldman, 65, a tough and spirited former teacher and labor leader who went from an impoverished childhood in a Coney Island tenement to the presidency of the nation's second-largest teachers union, died of breast cancer Sept. 18 at her home in New York City."
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Irving Feldman, The Waywiser Press, July 9, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2024. "Born in Coney Island, New York in 1928 and educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University, Irving Feldman taught at the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Lyon and Kenyon College before his appointment to SUNY at Buffalo in 1964 – from which he retired as Distinguished Professor of English in 2004."