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  • Call NumberGEHP_0179
  • Summary(0:23) Moving into 99 Commercial in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1991 -- (2:23) Artists working in the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, illegal dumping at Manhattan Ave. end -- (2:59) Being involved in GROW (Greenpoint Recycles Our Waste) -- (4:29) Living next to Newtown Creek -- (5:23) Seeing neighbors crabbing in Newtown Creek -- (6:00) Emily Bradshaw doing 5 year bird study on Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront -- (6:30) Pie billed grebe thought might have helped prevent TransGas power plant -- (8:01) Going to Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee (NCMC) meetings about new Newtown Creek Waste Treatment Facility -- (8:38) Greenpoint incinerator community meetings -- (9:42) Feeding and neutering/spaying local cat population -- (11:26) Wild dogs in Newtown Barge Park -- (13:28) Husband’s mugging on Pulaski bridge stairwell prompted Citizen’s for Safety on the Pulaski Bridge and Environs -- (17:00) Fighting waterfront rezoning with task force -- (18:80) Clipper Equity, developers of 77 Commercial communicating with neighbors -- (20:00) Helping local raccoons and possums -- (19:45) Wild Bird Find aiding in animal rescue -- (23:28) Challenge of maintaining cat shelters, site on MTA lot 65 Commercial Street -- (26:00) Allies for cat shelters
  • Date2018-03-08
  • Physical Description1 sound file (27 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorBornstein, Noa
  • 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 March 8, 2019, 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.
  • SubjectNew York City Audubon (Organization) ; Electric power plants ; Incinerators ; Sewage disposal plant ; Migratory birds ; Cats ; Pulaski Bridge ; Traffic--Truck ; Pie Billed Grebe ; Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.)
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview with Noa Bornstein conducted on March 8, 2019.