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  • Call NumberGEHP_0123
  • Summary(0:15) Introductions of Laura Treciokas, Joe Vance, Christine Holowacz, Adam Perlmutter, Katie Denny Horowitz and Trina McKeever -- (0:45) GWAPP (Greenpoint/Williamsburg Against Power Plants forming and proposed fighting ConEd power plant -- (4:02) Writing position papers to fight the power plant, Article X, using environmental impacts statements -- (8:15) Getting community organizations on board and candle light vigil with 2000 people -- (13:25) Name change ot Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning (GWAPP) --(17:00) Doing open space study and 2005 waterfront rezoning -- (20:00) Issues around city storage -- (21:40) 2012 Olympics proposed for waterfront -- (22:20) Adam Victor and TransGas proposed Bayside Fuel site power plant -- (27:45) TransGas coming back with proposed underground power plant -- (29:00) Issue bringing NAG and GWAPP together -- (34:08) Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park -- (35:30) Open Space Alliance (OSA), now North Brooklyn Parks Alliance -- (39:18) Getting website together, resource for information and transparency -- (42:00) Bringing attention to waterfront through public art project -- (46:20) GWAPP in 2019, merging with NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) to become North Brooklyn Neighbors (NBN) and volunteering in Greenpoint -- (52:12) Difference in conservancy and civic community group
  • Date2019-02-26
  • Physical Description1 sound file (56 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorGreenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning (GWAPP)
  • Cite AsGreenpoint Environmental History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on February 26, 2019 by Acacia Thompson on Oak Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
  • SubjectElectric power plants ; Lentol, Joseph R. ; Waterfronts ; TransGas ; Real estate development ; Zoning ; Olympic Games (30th : 2012 : London, England) ; New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission ; Environmental impact analysis--Case studies ; Community Board 1 (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Housing ; Parks ; McCarren Play Center (New York, N.Y.)
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview with Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning (GWAPP) conducted on 2019 February 26.