Summary(0:28) Family roots in Greenpoint, going to school at PS 31 on Dupont Street near NuHart -- (2:00) Becoming aware of neighborhood health issues related to industrial pollution -- (3:31) Kids playing outside Nuhart & Co. with airbornindustrial byproducts -- (3:30) Spending time on derelict waterfront piers -- (7:45) New development dumping in Newtown Creek and sewers -- (9:00) Air quality issues owing to development -- (13:00) Need change in Department of Buildings and to work with Department of Conservation to improve neighborhood -- (15:08) Working on tenant issues, home owners impacted by adjacent development -- (20:40) Greenpoint as a small town
NoteAudio interview conducted on May 23, 2019, by Acacia Thompson at the Leonard Library in Williamsburg, 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.
SubjectImmigrants--Polish ; Waterfronts ; Pollution ; Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; New York (N.Y.). Department of Environmental Protection ; Illegal dumping ; Waterfront dumping ; Air quality ; Real estate development ; Building laws ; Department of Buildings ; New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation ; Rent control ; Homeowners ; Lentol, Joseph R.
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TitleOral history interview with Victoria Cambranes conducted on 23 May 2019.