Summary(1:15) Environmental problems of the past cannot be fixed -- (3:30) City services used to be better -- (4:30) Newtown Creek will take 40 years to cleanup -- (7:40) As a boy family used coal in home -- (9:40) Can see pollution on Calgary Cemetery headstones -- (10:51) Salting streets for snow affects ecosystem -- (11:15) Bike lanes are good in Greenpoint but bike riders need to follow laws -- (12:35) Newtown Creek oil spill, contamination and Newtown Creek Nature Walk -- (14:00) Large boats coming into Greenpoint in 1940s -- (16:02) Noise pollution in Greenpoint -- (18:10) Forming GWAPP (Greenpoint/Williamsburg Against the Power Plant) and fighting the power plants of ConEd and TransGas -- (21:10) Newtown Creek is still being polluted while being cleaned up -- (23:02) Neziah Bliss buying property in Queens, Calgary Cemetery -- (26:53) Kosciuszko Bridge did a great job, people dumping garbage -- (29:30) Homeless situation in Greenpoint -- (31:15) Kingsland Avenue and other streets with ExxonMobil oil plume, resident smelled oil in home
NoteAudio interview conducted on May 23, 2018, by Acacia Thompson on Oak Street 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.
SubjectRecycling ; Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; Newtown Nature Walk ; Electric power plants ; Kosciuszko Bridge (New York, N.Y.) ; Traffic Density ; Pollution
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TitleOral history interview with Edmund Michaleski conducted on 2018 May 23.