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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0064-accs1
  • Summary(0:16) Living in Red Hook for 20 years -- (0:31) Childhood activities -- (1:36) Tensions when it was a Jewish and Italian neighborhood -- (2:22) Less violence in the last 20 years -- (2:56) Favorite places and activities nowadays -- (3:12) Fishing in Red Hook -- (4:08) Jumping over fences to get to swimming pools -- (5:17) The Front and the Back.
  • Date2015-12-08
  • Physical Description1 sound file (5 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorBenitez, Miguel
  • Cite AsBrooklyn 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 December 8, 2015, by Naheem Morris at the Miccio Senior Center. 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.
  • SubjectBaseball ; Childhood ; Fishing ; Swimming pools ; Jews--United States ; Italian Americans
  • PlaceRed Hook (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 Miguel Benitez on 2015 December 08.