Summary(0:33) Moved to Greenpoint in 1996 -- (1:10) Playing soccer in McCarren Park -- (2:18) Need for soccer league -- (2:58) Working with NYC Parks Department -- (3:56) Not much civic activity in Greenpoint -- (5:06) Soccer league growing and open space issues -- (6:00) Under siege by environmental issues -- (6:28) Community taking charge in issues -- (7:07) Proposed power plant would be a neighborhood killer -- (7:40) Made film with boats and East River -- (8:25) Launching boats from Huron Street to East River (9:09) Power of being on the water in NYC -- (9:30) Beginning of North Brooklyn Boat Club (NBBC) -- (11:40) Using money from the Newtown Creek Environmental Fund -- (13:13) Environmental stewardship as core mission to NBBC -- (14:20) Robust community grown out of NBBC -- (16:19) Programming at NBBC -- (17:38) Boat building -- (19:00) Hurricane Sandy destruction -- (20:55) How to preserve culture of NBBC as it grows
NoteAudio interview conducted on November 16, 2018, by Acacia Thompson in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
SubjectGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.) ; New York (N.Y.). Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn ; Electric power plants ; Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; New York (N.Y.). Department of Environmental Protection ; Waterfronts
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TitleOral history interview conducted with Dewey Thompson on November 16, 2018.