Summary(0:24) Moved to Greenpoint and discovering unused parkland next to BQE -- (3:30) Starting to work on garden and meeting Assemblyman Joe Lentol -- (5:00) Finding community support for garden -- (8:20) Getting people to work in the garden -- (9:40) Planting trees as memorials -- ( 12:50) Lentol Garden dedication in 1997 -- (13:50) Trying to get new people to work in the garden, feeling like retiring -- (17:27) NYU do environmental education over the summer -- (18:46) Soil in garden full of random objects, but fertile. Lead in soil always a concern -- (21:00) Grant from Grow NYC for raised beds for pollinator garden -- (23:40) Challenges of homeless, theft and drug use in garden -- (25:34) Hopes for the garden to be used for educational purposes
NoteAudio interview conducted on November 2, 2018, by Acacia Thompson at PS 110 in Greenpoint, 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.
SubjectBrooklyn-Queens Expressway (New York, N.Y.) ; New York (N.Y.). Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn ; Memorials ; Community gardens ; Environmental education ; Soils--Lead content
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TitleOral history interview with Randy Sandlin conducted on November 2, 2018.