Summary(2:20) Covid-19 impact on community -- (2:50) Observes changes in real estate market -- (3:15) New people moving to neighborhood, anticipates cultural clash -- (4:40) Empty buses and trains -- (6:45) Found essential work during pandemic, for vitamin company in Brooklyn Navy Yard -- (7:30) Ties to gang, NY City Bloods -- (9:00) Worries about reopening NYC -- (9:30) Hears stories from nurses -- (11:40) Pollution decrease during pandemic -- (13:50) Recalls Brooklyn in 1990s -- (14:40) Seeing kindness in neighborhood -- (18:15) Unstable housing during pandemic -- (20:00) Echoes of segregation -- (21:10) Comparison to experience of incarceration -- (21:40) Libraries, parks closed -- (22:30) Streets empty in Crown Heights -- (25:00) Worried about friends in prison, no visits allowed -- (29:30) Outside, people under unstable living during pandemic.
NoteAudio interview conducted on May 18, 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.
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TitleOral history interview with Michael T. Mingo Sr. conducted on 2020 May 18.