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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0146
  • SummaryJane Wong's narrative recounting her work at the New York State Department of Social Services and conditions in her neighborhood of Kensington at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brooklyn, NY. Related to OSOS_OH_0106.
  • Date2020-03-20
  • Physical Description1 image file: digital, PDF
  • CreatorWong, Jane
  • CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formattext
  • Genrepersonal narratives
  • NoteNarrative donated on May 13, 2020. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
  • SubjectQuarantine ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; Epidemics ; Coronaviruses
  • PlaceKensington (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.
  • TitleJane Wong's written narrative of events at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brooklyn, NY, dated March 20, 2020.