About This Item

  • Call NumberGEHP_0177
  • Summary(00:28) Family immigrated from Poland to Greenpoint in 1987 -- (1:09) Working in Greenpoint schools -- (2:10) Terrible neighborhood smells from Newtown Creek Waste Treatment Facility -- (3:12) Litter in Greenpoint -- (4:05) Many Greenpoint students with allergies and asthma -- (5:04) Environmental sustainability emerges in Greenpoint in 2005 -- (6:43) Indoor environmental problems at PS 34 -- (8:15) Developing allergies in Greenpoint -- (10:35) Quality of life environmental issues from pollution -- (11:04) Infrastructure issues in Greenpoint -- (12:31) Improvements in city parks (with transcription).
  • Date2019-02-27
  • Physical Description1 sound file (14 min.) : digital, MP3
  • 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
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on February 27, 2019, by Acacia Thompson in 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.
  • SubjectPoland ; Litter (Trash) ; Exxon Mobil Corporation ; Oil Spills ; Immigrants--Polish ; Air--Pollution ; National Wildlife Federation ; Elementary schools ; Environmental education
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleOral history interview with Superintendent Alicja Winniki conducted on 2019 February 27.