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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0073-accs
  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Arun Aguiar on 2017 January 28.
  • Summary(0:57) Living in Canarsie -- (1:43) Life in adult group home -- (3:03) The residents -- (3:48) Reasons why he lives there -- (4:30) Coping with the positive and negative -- (5:26) The building, the garden and the smoke room -- (6:39) Starting smoking again -- (11:46) The economic situation of the residents -- (12:53) Money lenders at the group home -- (13:29) The struggle for cigarettes -- (14:22) Living better because of support from brother -- (16:35) Smoking inexpensive Beedi cigarettes -- (17:51) Smoke room as a center of social activity -- (20:19) Feeling that every day is a gift -- (21:55) A private venture to defraud Medicaid and Medicare -- (2253) The doctor at the adult home -- (25:44) Facility infested with pests -- (25:56) Recovering from medical problems -- (27:50) Feeling bad for the people in the home -- (29:05) Fighting for change in the group home -- (31:08) Being a volunteer distributor of the Indypendent.
  • Date2017-01-28
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Physical Description1 sound file (36 min.) : digital, MP3
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on January 28, 2017, by Taina Evans at the Canarsie Library. Collected 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.
  • CreatorAguiar, Arun
  • SubjectBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs ; Congregate housing ; Medicaid fraud--United States ; Older people ; Smoking ; Cigarettes
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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