About This Item

  • Call NumberGEHP_0033
  • Summary(0:22) Exxon Oil Spill -- (1:00) Fishing in Newtown Creek -- (1:33) NuHart & Company -- (2:46) Factories in the neighborhood (5:33) Air pollution in NYC -- (6:50) Greenpoint Waterfront (6:17) WWII POWs in East River (7:28) Churches in Greenpoint -- (8:04) Greenpoint Jewish owned stores -- 10:04 Joseph’s and Hanuck's Department Stores -- (10:04) Real estate pressures in Greenpoint -- (12:30) Immigrants renting and buying property -- (13:20) Rent stabilization -- (15:08) Greenpoint as safe neighborhood -- (16:04) Waterfront and factories became ghost town -- (17:09) Greenpoint real estate -- (19:38) Discovering Greenpoint in retirement -- (21:40) Gentrifiers
  • Date2018-05-15
  • Physical Description1 sound file (22 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorBeissel, Paul
  • 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 May 15, 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.
  • SubjectNewtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; Real estate development ; Retirement ; Gentrification ; Rent control ; Air--Pollution ; Prisoner-of-war camps ; Immigrants ; Exxon Mobil Corporation ; Oil spills
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with on Paul Beissel on 2018 May 15.