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  • Call NumberGEHP_0036
  • Summary(0:21) Moving to Greenpoint from Prospect Heights -- (0:51) School at St. Anthony’s -- (1:44) Worked for Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer & Wood law firm -- (2:47) Working for American Airlines -- (3:01) Working for Young & Rubicam in advertising -- (3:48) Rent controlled apartment in Greenpoint -- (3:58) Volunteering to feed homeless in Greenpoint -- (5:32) North Brooklyn Angels feeding homeless and senior citizens -- (7:05) As a child worked for German deli -- (7:48) Placed bets for longshoreman -- (8:27) Subway made Manhattan Avenue the hub of commerce -- (8:50) Movie theaters in neighborhood -- (9:50) Becoming superintendent of rent controlled building -- (10:26) People of modest means are being priced out of neighborhood (with transcription).
  • Date2018-06-13
  • Physical Description1 sound file (10 min.) : digital, WAV
  • CreatorFarrell, Frank
  • 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 June 13, 2018, by Acacia Thompson at the Pete McGuiness Senior Center 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.
  • SubjectGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.) ; Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer & Wood ; American Airlines ; Rent control ; Homeless persons ; Older persons ; Gentrification ; Elderly poor
  • PlaceGreenpoint (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.
  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Frank Farrell on 2018 June 13.