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  • Call NumberGEHP_0115
  • Summary(00:38) Moving to Williamsburg in 1982-- (1:20) Waste transfer station moves into neighborhood -- (1:51) Creating Renew to make videod to show what was happening on waterfront -- (3:12) Showing videos at City Hall -- (3:34) Meeting folks to start Neighbors Against Garbage in 1994 -- (6:38) Garbage was an environmental and land use issue -- (8:57) Getting regulations enforced and the closing down of mob-owned waste transfer stations -- (12:28) Other neighborhoods affected by waste transfer stations -- (13:46) Comprehensive city waste transfer plan -- (14:21) Radiac -- (16:00) City Planning ignores community needs - (17:56) Community steamrolled by City Planning -- (19:30) City’s view of Williamsburg as backwater, redlining the neighborhood -- (21:35) Welcomed to community because of shared efforts in improving neighborhood -- (22:45) Mom and Pop shops -- (25:15) Idea of community coming together to fight seems lost now -- (27:02) Changes in Williamsburg (29:21) Time in Neighbors Against Garbage
  • Date2018-12-18
  • Physical Description1 sound file (30 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorGillespie, Peter
  • 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 December 18, 2018, by Acacia Thompson on Bedford 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.
  • SubjectEnvironmental issues ; Environmental justice ; Housing ; Gentrification ; Crime Gangsters New York (State) New York ; Urban pollution ; Incinerators ; Waterfronts; Activists ; Housing ; Real estate development ; Electric power plants ; Land use--New York (State)--New York ; Garbage ; Waste disposal sites--New York (State)--New York ; Gentrification ; Community Board 1 (Brooklyn. New York, N.Y) ; New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Peter Gillespie 2018 December 18.