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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0026-accs
  • Summary(0:10) Arriving in Brooklyn in 1970 and getting married -- (0:27) Changes in the block -- (0:40) Finding a church -- (0:54) Good quality public transportation -- (1:47) Changes in street names -- (2:18) Influx of white neighbors -- (2:35) Safety of neighborhood -- (2:46) Adapting to Brooklyn because of her husband -- (3:15) Decline of Broadway -- (3:25) Changes in buildings and storefronts -- (4:01) Moving from Queens -- (4:16) Adjusting to attached houses and closeness of people in Brooklyn -- (4:34) Children on the block -- (4:56) Culture shock moving from the country to the big city -- (5:19) Police officers and the neighborhood -- (6:30) Development in Brooklyn -- (6:55) Activities at Quincy Senior Residences -- (7:25) Community at Brown Memorial Baptist Church over the past 30 years -- (8:33) Lack of respect among modern youth -- (9:27) The blackout -- (11:05) September 11 attacks -- (12:05) Subway strike in the 1980s -- Secretarial work for Merrill Lynch -- (12:53) West Indian Day Parade -- (13:23) Brooklyn Queens Day -- (13:50) Importance of church in life -- (14:37) Importance of kindness and being neighborly -- (15:10) Encouraging local children in education and goals.
  • Date2016-06-13
  • Physical Description1 sound file (17 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorAlston, Anita
  • 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 13, 2016, by Emerald Carter at Quincy Senior Residences. 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.
  • SubjectNineteen sixities ; Nineteen seventies ; Nineteen eighties ; Churches ; Gentrification ; Urban transportation ; Youth development ; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 ; Police--New York (State)--Brooklyn ; Senior centers ; Electric power failures ; Riots ; Line dancing
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Anita Alston on 2016 June 13.