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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0136
  • Summary(1:30) Connection to community during pandemic -- (5:10) Work as reading and writing tutor -- (7:50) First Unitarian Congregation Society in Brooklyn Heights -- (9:00) Virtual Passover seder -- (11:00) My Local Heroes storytelling project -- (20:00) Elevating the work of everyday workers in Brooklyn during Covid-19 -- (22:00) Inequities highlighted during pandemic -- (26:50) Neighborhood collaboration in Red Hook -- (29:00) Using The Hub: newsletter, essential to communication during pandemic -- (30:00) Red Hook Business Alliance meetings.
  • Date2020-05-29
  • Physical Description1 sound file (34 min) : digital, WAV
  • CreatorTraubman, Eleanor
  • CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on May 29, 2020, by Virginia Marshall. 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
  • PlaceCarroll Gardens (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 with Eleanor Traubman conducted on 2020 May 29.