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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0231-accs
  • Summary(0:14) Always coming back to Brooklyn -- (1:12) The neighborhood crossing guard -- (1:36) A community encouraging you to speak to other people -- (2:38) The importance of diverse neighborhoods -- (3:29) Bringing people together through food -- (5:08) Biggie Smalls funeral -- (6:32) The Visitation church -- (7:17) Changes in Prospect Park -- (8:05) Neighborhoods lacking money -- (8:43) The Libraries role in the community -- (11:16) Working at St. John's Bread & Life as a Community outreach specialist -- (12:51) Being a part of the community -- (13:29) Dealing with the housing system -- (14:28) Trying to give back hope -- (15:47) Challenges with helping the neighborhood as a whole -- (17:12) Transfers to other boroughs -- (17:45) Increasing rents and costs of food -- (18:07) Nutrition education -- (20:32) The importance of practicing consistency -- (21:29) Taking the time to ask what people need -- (23:36) Hardest parts of working with the community -- (24:29) Stigma with mental illness and poverty -- (26:20) Advice for people coming to Brooklyn -- (27:28) Remembering that Brooklyn is made of many cultures -- (29:00) Favorite food in Brooklyn -- (29:57) Woodhull Hospital and the importance of psychiatric wards.
  • Date2018-06-12
  • Physical Description1 sound file (31 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorRivera, Natalia
  • 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 June 12, 2018, by Johan Norberg at the Central library. 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.
  • SubjectSoup kitchens ; Community participation ; Community development ; Public welfare ; Poverty ; Homelessness ; Brooklyn Public Library ; Unemployment ; Cultural pluralism ; Starvation ; Political participation ; Food trucks ; Subsidies ; Public housing ; Nutrition ; Mental health ; Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Gentrification ; Human services ; Notorious B.I.G., 1972-1997
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)Red Hook (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Natalia Rivera on 2018 June 12.