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  • Call NumberGEHP_0127
  • Summary(0:00) Jane Pool -- (1:16) Julie Lawrence -- (2:07) Heather Rosalund-- (2:36) Stephanie Thayer -- (6:18) Peter Gillespie, N.A.G. formation community issues in the 1990s -- (10:09) Ward Dennis talks about 1990s issues -- (12:05) Neighborhood getting organized, RENEW video collective making films to show what was happening on the waterfront -- (13:54) Kate -- (15:27) Ward Dennis -- (19:34) Felice Kirby -- (30:38) Susan Albrecht -- (35:50) Waldemar Kawalko -- (41:16) Alan Minor (47:20) Lael Goodman -- (47:40) Nicole De Feo-- (47:00) Alan Minor -- (49:55) Charlotte Binns -- (51:30) Lisa Bloodgood -- (58:40) Anthony Buissereth -- (1:03:40) Heather Rosalind -- (1:05:18) Peter Gillespie and what N.A.G was about and now -- (1:07:07) Ward Dennis and Felice Kirby on 2005 waterfront rezoning -- (1:08:34) Stephanie Thayer -- (1:10:44) Ward Dennis -- ( 1:15:30) Sarah Porter -- (1:22:23) Sarah Porter (1:23:50) NAG tabling at Tops grocery. See related oral history catalog # GEHP_0115
  • Date2019-01-31
  • Physical Description1 sound file (1 hr 29 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorN.A.G. (Neighbors Against Garbage),
  • Cite AsGreenpoint Environmental History Project, Brooklyn 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 January 31, 2019 by Acacia Thompson on Kent Avenue, in Williamsburg, 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.
  • SubjectReal estate development ; Zoning ; Waste disposal sites--New York (State)--New York ; Charettes ; Waterfronts ; Incinerators ; Electric power plants ; Demonstrations ; Land use--New York (State)--New York ; Working class ; McCarren Play Center (New York, N.Y.) ; Asthma ; Voluntarism ; Housing ; Lenotl, Joseph R.
  • PlaceWilliamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with present and former members of N.A.G. (Neighbors Against Garbage), then Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, then N.B.N. (North Brooklyn Neighbors) on 31 January 2019. Nicole De Feo, Waldemar Kawalko, Felice Kirby, Heather Roslund, Jane Poo, Lael Goodman, Charlotte Binns, Peter Gillespie, Alan Minor, Susan Albrecht, Julie Lawrence, Stephanie Thayer, Sarah Porter, Ward Dennis, Lisa Bloodgood, Anthony Buissereth.