Summary(0:18) Growing up in Greenpoint -- (0:53) The environmental situation growing up & the siren from Eberhard Faber -- (1:56) The Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima statue -- (3:02) The fire engines and “The walkers” -- (3:44) Being able to go anywhere as a child -- (4:35) The Santa Clause pictures handed out by banks and going to school -- (5:06) The trolley car barn fire in 1952 -- (7:16) The Greenpoint Playground and the knitting man -- (9:04) Going to the waterfront -- (9:53) Going to PS 31 and the fire drills -- (10:59) The Baptismal certificate, and the school trip to Jacob Riis Beach -- (11:49) Going to Prospect Park -- (12:26) The ice skating police officer at McCarren Park -- (14:09) The first murder on the north side -- (15:19) The history of a lot on Greenpoint Avenue.
NoteAudio interview conducted on November 30, 2018, by Acacia Thompson at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
SubjectEberhard Faber Pencil Company ; Factories ; Kings County Hospital (Kings County, N.Y.) ; Rendering works ; Kerosene ; Kerosene ; Pollution ; Chemical spills ; Urban pollution ; Factory and trade waste--Environmental aspects ; Fires--New York (State) ; Poverty ; Trolley cars ; Waterfronts ; Catholic schools ; Crime ; American Legion ; McDonald's Corporation ; Air Pollution ; Jacob Riis Park Historic District ; Nineteen forties ; Nineteen fifties
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TitleOral history interview conducted with Joan Hunsted on 2018 November 30.