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  • Call NumberGEHP_0126
  • Summary(0:17) Growing up in Greenpoint and family on Withers street -- (2:33) Family started oil business -- (4:10) Bringing United Metro Energy to Kingsland Avenue -- (6:17) Seeing neon colors in Newtown Creek from industrial pollution -- (7:29) Description of refinery tanks -- (10:07) History of property near Greenpoint Avenue and McGuinness Boulevard, was Union Porcelain Works, now Otto apartment building-- (13:33) Deep roots in neighborhood -- (14:20) Improvements in the neighborhood
  • Date2019-03-22
  • Physical Description1 sound file (15 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorPullo, Paul
  • 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).
  • Formatstill image
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on March 22, 2019, by Acacia Thompson on Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint, 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.
  • Subject"Newtown Creek (Kings County-New York County, N.Y.) ; Petroleum refineries ; Air--Pollution ; Exxon Mobil Corporation ; Oil spills ; Porcelain ; Factories "
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview with Paul Pullo conducted on 22 March 2019.