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  • Call NumberGEHP_0024
  • Summary(0:00) Moving to Greenpoint -- (0:54) Living in Polish immigrant neighborhood in 1989 -- (1:50) Threat of ConEd power plant on waterfront -- (2:45) Joining Greenpoint and Williamsburg Against Power Plants (GWAPP) -- (3:19) Fighting for open space and Bushwick Inlet Park -- (4:49) Kids skateboarding at “Skanky Town”(Now East River State Park) -- (5:34) Kids playing soccer at McCarren Park and Automotive High School -- (6:12) Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park initiatives (With transcription).
  • Date2019-03-15
  • Physical Description1 sound file ( 8 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorMcKeever, Trina
  • 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
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on March 15, 2109 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.
  • SubjectNew York (N.Y.). Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn ; Waterfronts ; Electric power plants ; Immigrants--Polish ; New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission
  • PlaceGreenpoint (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 conducted with Trina McKeever on 2019 March 15.