Our Streets, Our Stories

Our Streets, Our Stories

By Brooklyn Public LibrarySociety & Culture
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Our Streets, Our Stories episodes

  • Jimmy Pynn
    Jimmy Pynn, 22 year Plant Superintendent at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, is interviewed on May 1, 2019, at the Central Library.
    1 hr 15 min
  • Geoff Cobb
    Geoff Cobb, author and local historian, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Box Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on April 24th, 2019.
    29 min
  • Newtown Creek Alliance
    Katie Schmidt, Mitch Waxman, Kate Zidar, Mai Armstrong, Bill Schuck, Paul Parkhill, Damian Lawyer, David Yassky, Paul Pullo, Mike Dulong, Willis Elkins, Steve Lang, Dorothy Moorehead, Laura Hoffman, Lisa Bloodgood and Dewey Thompson of Newtown Creek Alliance are interviewed by Acacia Thompson on January 16, 2019 on Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
    1 hr 50 min
  • Edmund Michaleski
    Edmund Michaleski, chemist and lifelong Greenpoint resident, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Oak Street In Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 23, 2018.
    36 min
  • Laura Hoffman
    Laura Hoffman, environmental activist, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Dupont Street in Greenpoint Brooklyn, on February 8, 2018.
    1 hr 21 min
  • Rich Mazur
    Rich Mazur, Executive Director of North Brooklyn Development Corps., is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on February 6, 2019, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
    46 min
  • Kim and Scott Fraser
    Kim and Scott Fraser, Greenpoint environmental activists, are interviewed by Acacia Thompson on August 4th, 2018, on Kent Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
    1 hr 50 min

About Our Streets, Our Stories

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OUR STREETS, OUR STORIES is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library's Department of Outreach Services that seeks to explore the Brooklyn that is and was, from the words of the community that lives here. Our hope is to create neighborhood-specific history archives based around interviews with Brooklyn residents. We seek to not only witness the change taking place all around us, but also to record and preserve the history of our neighborhoods before that history is forgotten.