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- Call NumberOSOS_OH_0072-accs
- Summary(0:25) Bushwick then and now -- (0:42) Growing up in a community orientated block -- (1:29) A nice childhood in a big family -- (2:05) Childhood activities -- (2:56) Going to school -- (4:07) Dramatical neighborhood changes in the last years -- (5:20) Good and bad effects of the change -- (5:54) Staying active at the senior center -- (6:18) The YMCA -- (7:00) Mother working as a seamstress -- (8:05) Remembering places -- (8:52) Experiences as a teacher -- (10:25) Great things about Bushwick -- (10:55) A safer place nowadays -- (11:43) Going to Coney Island to fish.
- Date2017-03-06
- Physical Description1 sound file (13 min.) : digital, MP3
- CreatorAvila, Mildred
- Cite AsBrooklyn 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 March 6, 2015, by Judith Pierce and Taina Evans at Bushwick Library. Collected 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.
- SubjectPuerto Ricans--New York (N.Y.) ; Education ; Community development ; Immigrants ; Condominiums ; Community centers ; York College (New York, N.Y.) ; Gentrification ; YMCA of the USA. ; Seamstresses--New York (State) ; Clothing factories ; Drugs ; Fishing
- PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene Park (New York, N.Y.)Queens (New York, N.Y.)
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- TitleOral history interview conducted with Mildred Avila on 2017 March 6.