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  • Call NumberGEHP_0034
  • Summary(0:22) Growing up in Greenpoint -- (0:50) Weather influence on outdoor activity -- (1:17) Attending PS 34 and IS 126 -- (1:40) Sleeping outside and Cohen’s Bakery -- (2:00) Shopping on Manhattan Avenue -- (2:25) Smokestacks and pollution -- (2:55) Working to support family -- (3:59) Real estate pressures on families -- (4:07) Effect on elderly of rising rents -- (4:47) Challenges of building boom -- (5:30) Volunteering at church -- (6:15) Issues for the elderly -- (7:15) Construction boom and housing issues -- (8:56) Events in McCarren Park (9:43) Greenpoint population density change -- (7:25) Not enough infrastructure for development
  • Date2018-06-13
  • Physical Description1 sounds file (11 min.): digital, MP3
  • CreatorBaumgardt, Al
  • 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 June 13, 2018, by Acacia Thompson at the Pete McGuinness Senior Center. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
  • SubjectRent control--United States ; Real estate development ; Senior centers ; Voluntarism
  • 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 on Al Baumgardt on 2018 June 13.