Summary(1:45) Works for New York State welfare department from home -- (3:00) Beginning of lockdown -- (4:30) Changes in Kensington neighborhood -- (5:50) Pandemic inspires neighborhood solidarity, kindness -- (7:40) Midwood Library writing group, staying connected -- (9:30) Family in New Zealand -- (10:20) Member of quilting group -- (12:00) Quilters making masks -- (14:30) Moved to Brooklyn in 2003, 9 years in Kensington -- (15:40) Works long shifts processing welfare payments -- (16:40) More unemployed, changes in work -- (18:50) Pokémon Go (Game), adjusts to keep people inside -- (20:10) Always alert -- (21:08) 7 pm applause for essential workers, neighbors helping each other, PS 130, East Fourth Street Community Garden -- (24:50) Fund-raising for local restaurants, restaurants donating food. Related to OSOS_OH_0146.
NoteAudio interview conducted on May 13, 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 ; New York (State)--Department of Social Services ;
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TitleOral history interview with Jane Wong on 2020 May 13.