The Coney Island History Project preserves the New York amusement park's legendary and colorful
past by recording the stories of long time residents, archiving historic documents, film and
imagery, and sponsoring education programs and exhibits. Whirl-i-Gig designed the Project's web
site and built a software system to process their oral history archive, a subset of which is now available
on the web site, under grants from the New York City Departments of Cultural Affairs and Youth
Development. The site uses Whirl-i-Gig's open source
CollectiveAccess software to manage all collections, oral history and
georeferenced imagery on the site.
An oral history database containing dozens of interviews with Coney Island old-timers is available on the site.
An interactive development map lets visitors understand through historic photographs how
the area's landscape has changed over the years.
