Milton Brown

Milton Brown

male, deceased (1936)
From Fort Worth, Texas, From Fort Worth, ConeyIsland, steel guitar, Western swing, country music
Milton Brown (7 September 1903 - 13 April 1936, Crystal Springs, Texas) born in Stephenville, Texas was a band leader and vocalist who was one of...

Herbie Kronowitz

male, 86 years old
Jewish, Jewish American sportspeople, boxer, from New York City, Jewish American, Middleweight…ConeyIsland
Herbert "Herbie" Kronowitz, originally Theodore "Ted" Kronowitz (born ca. 1923), is a retired Jewish American middleweight boxer who fought in the...
Isa Chandra Moskowitz

Isa Chandra Moskowitz

female, 36 years old
vegan, Food Not Bombs, Veganism, American, Post Punk Kitchen, Food writer…ConeyIsland
Isa Chandra Moskowitz is an American born cookbook author and the co-host of a New York City based cable access cooking show. Born at Coney Island...
Maurice Zolotow

Maurice Zolotow

male, deceased (1991)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, pop culture, life magazine, Show Business, billboard magazine, jazz…ConeyIsland
Maurice Zolotow was a show business biographer. He wrote books and magazine articles. His articles appeared in publications including "Life",...
Samuel H. Gottscho

Samuel H. Gottscho

male, deceased (1971)
Jewish, photographer, New York Times, Nature photographer, Pioneer of photography, ConeyIsland
Samuel Herman Gottscho February 8, 1875 Brooklyn, New York - January 28, 1971 Jamaica, Queens, New York, American architectural, landscape, and...

Toni Senecal

female, 40 years old
New York University, Antonia "Toni" Senecal, Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Toni On!, ConeyIsland, documentary
Antonia "Toni" Senecal (born July 11, 1969) is an entertainment reporter for WNYW-TV Fox 5 News at 10. She worked at WPIX-TV New York's "WB11 News...
L. Wolfe Gilbert

L. Wolfe Gilbert

male, deceased (1970)
Vaudeville performer, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, mausoleum, American, odessa, culver city…ConeyIsland
Louis Wolfe Gilbert (August 31, 1886-July 12, 1970) was a Russian-born American songwriter. Born in Odessa, Russia, he moved to the United States...
Vivienne Dick

Vivienne Dick

female
Punk filmmaker, Experimental filmmaker, American, Documentary film, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, experimental film…ConeyIsland
Vivienne Dick is an Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker. She was born in Dublin but moved to the United States in the 1970s. In the U.S.,...
Steve Ferrigno

Steve Ferrigno

male, deceased (1930)
Bronx, ConeyIsland, neapolitan, five mafia crime families, Salvatore "Tata" D'Aquila, Pellegrino "Don Grino" Morano
Stefano "Steve" Ferrigno (ca.1900 - November 5, 1930) was born in Sicily, it is unknown exactly when he emigrated to the United States, but he...
Burt Topper

Burt Topper

male, deceased (2007)
World War II, Sam Arkoff, cult film, pulmonary failure, film director, ConeyIsland
Burt Topper was an American film director and screenwriter best known for cult films aimed at teenagers. Born in Coney Island, New York, Topper...