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  • Call NumberGEHP_0116
  • Summary(00:40) Involvement in environmental advocacy -- (1:52) Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) -- (3:09) Work on Community Board -- (3:33) Using land use expertise in community -- (5:10) 197-a Plan -- (5:39) 2005 Waterfront rezoning and missed opportunities -- (9:23) Industrial Business Zone rezoning around Bushwick Inlet Park -- (10:47) Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park (FoBIP) -- (13:00) Acquiring property for Bushwick Inlet Park, CitiStorage fire -- (16:25) City not honouring promises of 2005 rezoning -- (17:37) Grassroots activism in fighting for park -- (20:00) Design of Bushwick Inlet Park -- (20:45) Lack of passive open space on the Northside -- (23:25) Contiguous waterfront from Manhattan Ave to Division Ave. -- (25:47) Underfunding of NYC Parks -- (26:48) Need of park Friends groups and local advocacy -- (30:12) Community coming together over incinerator -- (31:40) Neighbors Against Garbage (NAG) -- (34:04) City not preserving South side of Williamsburg -- (34:49) Eberhard Faber Historical District -- (37:17) North Brooklyn Neighbors Toxicity Map -- (40:00) Bushwick Inlet Creek --
  • Date2019-01-14
  • Physical Description1 sound file (42 min.) : digital, WAV
  • CreatorDennis, Ward
  • 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 January 14th, 2019, by Acacia Thompson at the Central Library in 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.
  • SubjectIncinerators--New York (State)--New York ; New York (N.Y.), Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Administration ; Land use--New York (State)--New York ; Waterfronts ; Real estate development ; Incinerators ; Eberhard Faber Historical District ; Waste disposal sites--New York (State)--New York ; Garbage ; New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission
  • 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 Ward Dennis 2019 January 14.