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Suzanne Colucci has the afternoon's top headlines from the WCBS 880 newsroom...

This is the All Local morning update for Saturday, November 18th, 2023.

An Episode I forgot to upload in the midst of the 'Rona!

Meg testifies how Sammy Gravano went from "Bull" to stool pigeon. Jessica takes us on a stroll down The Great White Way.

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Episode 11 shares the stories of four dedicated and innovative teachers who founded schools of their own in Coney Island and adjacent neighborhoods in Southern Brooklyn. April Leong in the award-winning founder and principal of Liberation Diploma Plus High School, a small alternative high school in Coney Island. Dr. Tim Law established a program of free Chinese language classes for children at I.S. 96 Seth Low School in Bensonhurst. Irina Roizin realized her childhood dream of founding a ballet school, Brighton Ballet Theater School of Russian Ballet, located at Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach.  Misha Mokretsov is head coach and owner of Coney Island's New York Fencing Academy, located just down the block from the History Project.

This episode was produced by Charles Denson, Ali Lemer and Tricia Vita. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Chinese translation by Keenan Yutai Chen. Voice overs by River Kanoff and Ali Lemer. The oral histories were conducted by Mark Markov, Samira Tazari, and Yolanda Zhang between 2015 and 2019. You can listen to the full interviews featured in this podcast in our oral history archive at coneyislandhistory.org. 

Listen to previous episodes about Coney Island's legendary roller coasters, beach, bathhouses, and restaurants and other businesses on Mermaid Avenue and in the amusement area via your fave podcast app or the podcast page on the Coney Island History Project's website.

©2021 The Coney Island History Project. All Rights Reserved. This program is supported, in part, by funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York City Councilman Mark Treyger.

Happy Mother's Day!  Sending some extra love today to all the extraordinary mothers out there!

And speaking of extraordinary mothers....

This week, Katie interviews her sisters-in law, Lori Wolfson and Andrea Wachter, about  their mother, Bernice Wachter. 

Bernice raised her kids in quintessential “Mama Bear" mode, striking the perfect balance between giving guidance and granting independence. She gave her children the room to make their own mistakes, but still pushed them to do what she sensed was right. 

And through all the ups and downs, Bernice has never lost her wonderful sense of humor!

Artwork by Paula Mangin (@PaulaBallah)
Music composed and performed by Andrea Perry
Producers: Alice Hudson & Sophie McNulty

Mother Word Cloud: Please contribute the one word that best describes your mother to the Mother Word Cloud.

Also, starting this week, we're  bringing you the Mother Mine mini-series from producer Katie Semro, right here on the Our Mothers Ourselves Buzzsprout feed. 

Mother Mine is about our mothers and how they’ve shaped us. It will be coming to you as 75 short episodes in the voices of people from across the globe. I hope you’ll listen along as we explore who our mothers are and who we have become because of them. 

On episode 18 of the Brooklyn’s Own Podcast, Joe Causi & Intern Anthony talk about the values they learned from their first jobs in Bensonhurst.

We touch on restaurant etiquette and how we can help the hard working servers’ lives easier! Is it wrong to be seated at the restaurant and not know what to order? All will be answered here….Also, Joe’s not really eating burgers anymore, but he still likes the roast pork at the diner!

We go on our usual tangent by talking about random things like vacations and one of our co-workers, Scott Shannon!