About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0097
  • Summary(1:40) Telecommuting, cooking -- (2:05) Creating a routine -- (2:45) Volunteering with Bed-Stuy Strong -- (3:45) Worked for real estate developer, learning about the community’s needs -- (5:55) Feeling conflict between corporate work and progressive leanings -- (6:24) Introduced to mutual aid work -- (9:55) Hope that groups formed in response to crisis continue community involvement when crisis ends -- (11:45) Does not see New York returning to what it was at any part in its history -- (11:50) Mutual aid seems fundamental to urban life. 
  • Date2020-05-08
  • Physical Description1 sound file (13 min) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorGarfield, Samantha
  • CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
  • 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
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on May 8, 2020, by Zoe Grueskin. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project 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.
  • SubjectQuarantine ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; Epidemics ; Coronaviruses ; Telecommuting ; Fraternal organizations
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (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 Samantha Garfield on 2020 May 8.