@typographica shared this instagram piece and I've contacted both the producer of that and Sam's own profile, but with no reply.
There is a Coney Island connection, so that's my next port of call after finding this little profile and audio interview with him: coneyislandhistory.org/oral-hi…
Sea Gate resident Sam Moses, 66, is one of Coney Island's finest sign painters. He shares memories of his boyhood apprenticeship at a sign shop in East New York and his dreams of painting in Coney Island.
49K likes, 1,328 comments - newyorknico on August 7, 2026: "Sam Moses has been painting signs since he was 13 years old and, somehow, he’s still at it.
At least 8 people, including 4 children, were shot during a #July4th barbecue in the #ConeyIsland neighborhood of #Brooklyn Saturday, acc/to police.
As family celebrated #IndependenceDay in the courtyard of a home, an unknown man dressed in all black & wearing a black ski mask approached the fence line along Surf Ave & fired multiple rounds into the courtyard before fleeing on foot, NYPD Com Jessica Tisch told reporters Sunday.
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🍼🔬 In the early #1900s, an obstetrician ran a #ConeyIsland sideshow called the "child hatchery" where visitors paid to see premie #babies in glass #incubators – because no hospital in #NewYorkCity would care for them.
Over four decades, the doctor cared for about 8,000 #infants, and his sideshow proved incubators worked, eventually pushing hospitals to adopt the #technology that remains standard in NICUs today.
John Di Leonardo's role is treating critters that were either abandoned or rescued from harrowing circumstances across Long Island and parts of New York City.
