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  • Call NumberGEHP_0114
  • Summary(0:33) Moving to Greenpoint as prosecutor in Queens -- (1:45) Goes to Neighbors Against Garbage (NAG) meeting -- (4:10) Creating working group and learning about how power plants are put in communities -- (4:30) Greenpoint targeted by energy speculators -- (5:34) TransGas trying to build power plant in Greenpoint -- (7:00) Rezoning waterfront as way to stop power plant -- (8:56) Preventing TransGas by mapping parkland -- (10:45) Bushwick Inlet -- (12:00) Meeting George Klein -- (15:02) TransGas case and allowing waterfront to develop -- (16:56) Working for a developer and with community -- (19:45) TransGas lawsuit goes on because of different city administrations -- (21:10) Insuring Bushwick Inlet Parkland is acquired -- (23:10) Community starting to organize for Bushwick Inlet Park (BIP) -- (25:10) Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park (FoBIP) going to city land use meetings to -- (26:30) Imminent domain law issues on waterfront development -- (30:00) Meeting with city officials to work on land use -- (34:10) Working in Open Space Alliance (OSA) and FoBIP -- (35:40) Working as a judge "
  • Date2018-12-16
  • Physical Description1 sound file (37 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorPerlmutter, Adam
  • 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 December 16, 2018, by Acacia Thompson on Box 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.
  • SubjectWaste disposal sites--New York (State)--New York ; TransGas ; Spitzer, Eliot ; Electric power plants ; Waterfronts ; New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission ; Eminent domain--United States ; Land use--New York (State)--New York
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Adam Perlmutter 2018 December 16.