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  • Call NumberGEHP_0178
  • Summary(0:24) Living on Williamsburg waterfront -- (1:56) Waterfront was a wild area -- (3:00) Characters living nearby -- (5:00) Waterfront as large open space -- (5:55) Neighbors scrapping metal -- (7:08) Chopshops -- (9:30) Waste transfer stations on waterfront -- (10:41) Hopes for rezoning waterfront -- (12:20) RENEW media collective used to fight waste transfer stations and development -- (15:14) Using newspapers and maps to environmental issues promote issues -- (15:50) Proposed Navy Yard Incinerator to be on Revolutionary War graveyard -- (17:20) Williamsburg Cartography Club using media skills to promote issues -- (18:55) Making and showing videos to show officials and draw attention to waterfront issues -- (23:01) Strategies to video waste transfer stations and truck traffic-- (24:25) Making film “Blissville Stories” on Newtown Creek -- (28:59) Fortune cookie factory and statue of liberty replica factory in Blissville -- (32:55) Makeup of Blissville diverse -- (34:47) Floating Cinema, going up Newtown Creek -- (36:37) Newtown Creek Alliance -- (37:26) Romani community in Queens
  • Date2019-01-30
  • Physical Description1 sound file (40 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorLinhart, Hank
  • 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 30, 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.
  • SubjectWilliamsburg (New York, N.Y.) ; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Television program) ; Waterfronts ; Pollution ; Crime ; Incinerator ; Waste disposal sites--New York (State)--New York ; United States. Department of Justice ; Organized crime--New York (State)--New York ; Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; Queens (New York, N.Y.) ; Factories ; Romani ; Garbage
  • PlaceWilliamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview with Hank Linhart conducted on 2019 January 30.