Greenpoint Environmental History

Reflections from 1619 as part of Til Victory is Won: 400 Years of Making Revolution and Inventing Utopia. An oral history project at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Reflections from 1619

Professor Winston Peterkin is interviewed by Megan Goins-Diouf, Orlando Bryan, and Emma Clark at the Flatbush Library on October 24th, 2015. 

Professor Winston Peterkin

Roseanne Clark-White and Randolph White are interviewed by Taina Evans at Boys and Girls High School in Bed-Stuy on March 8th, 2016. 

Roseanne Clark-White and Randolph White

Bob Florin is interviewed by Zachary Schulman and Samantha Feldman at the Central Library on July 15th, 2016 as part of the Our Gardens, Our Stories partnership with Brooklyn Queens Land Trust. 

Bob Florin

Jaime Alvarez is interviewed by Samantha Feldman outdoors at the Concerned Citizens of Grove Street garden in Bushwick on July 29th, 2016 as part of the Our Gardens, Our Stories partnership with Brooklyn Queens Land Trust.

Jaime Alvarez

Howard Seligman is interviewed by Taina Evans at Midwood High School on October 15th, 2016.

Howard Seligman

Stephan Likosky is interviewed by Carmen Lopez and Nick Higgins at the Central Library on October 25th, 2016.

Stephan Likosky

Billy Powers is interviewed by Trevor Kroger at the Central Library on October 13th, 2017.

Central Library

Billy Powers

Judith Collins is interviewed by Taina Evans at the Fort Hamilton Library on April 14th, 2017.

Fort Hamilton

Judith Collins

Audio interview conducted on December 14, 2018, by Acacia Thompson at Broadway Stages 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.

Tony Argento

Judge Adam Perlmutter is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Box Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on December 16th, 2018

Judge Adam Perlmutter

Trina McKeever is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Oak Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on March 15, 2019.

Trina McKeever

Peter Gillespie is interviewed by Acacia Thompson in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on December 18, 2018.

Peter Gillespie

Assemblyman Joe Lentol is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Lorimer Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on October 29, 2018.

Assemblyman Joe Lentol

Niki Jackson is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on August 14, 2018 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

NIki Jackson

Pastor Amy Kienzle is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on November 13, 2018 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Pastor Amy Kienzle

Dewey Thompson is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on November 16, 2018 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Dewey Thompson

Mike Schade is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts, Brooklyn on November 1, 2018.

Mike Schade

Randy Sandlin of Lentol Garden is interviewed at PS 110 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on November 2, 2018.

Randy Sandlin

Rich Mazur, Executive Director of North Brooklyn Development Corps., is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on February 6, 2019, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Rich Mazur

Edmund Michaleski, chemist and lifelong Greenpoint resident, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Oak Street In Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 23, 2018.

Edmund Michaleski

Jimmy Pynn, 22 year Plant Superintendent at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, is interviewed on May 1, 2019, at the Central Library.

Jimmy Pynn

Julie Lawrence, community activist, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on May 23, 2019.

Julie Lawrence

John Dereszewski, Greenpointer and former Community Board 1 member is interviewed by Acacia Thompson in Forest Hills, Queens on May 27, 2019.

John Dereszewski

Marcy Boyle, lifelong Greenpoint resident, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson on Diamond Street, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on June 11, 2019.

Marcy Boyle

Victoria Cambranes, progressive activist, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on May 23, 2019.

Victoria Cambranes

Jane Pool, community activist, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 24th, 2019

Jane Pool

Felice Kirby, community organizer and activist, is interviewed by Acacia Thompson in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on May 15, 2019.

Felice Kirby

Bernadette OKeKe is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on
October 26th, 2019.

Bernadette OKeKe

Aretha Campbell is interviewed by Taina Evans at the Central Library on October 26th, 2019.

Aretha Campbell

Marsha Desormeaux is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on October 26th, 2019.

Marsha Desormeaux

Lawrence James is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on
November 20th, 2019.

Lawrence James

Ras Omeil Morgan is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on December 17th, 2019.

Ras Omeil Morgan

Jennifer R. Williams is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on January 8th, 2020.

Image still from video, courtesy of Jennifer R. Williams.

Jennifer R. Williams

Robert Anthony Gibbons is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on January 15th, 2020.

Robert Anthony Gibbons

Bilal Ndongo is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Brownsville Library on January 22nd, 2020.

Bilal Ndongo

Saundra Sirmans is interviewed by Lina Chang over the phone at the Central Library on January 30th, 2020.

Saundra Sirmans

Frangena Johnson is interviewed by Lina Chang over the phone at the Central Library on February 5th, 2020.

Frangena Johnson

Edna Clement Swan is interviewed by Lina Chang over the phone at the Central Library on February 14th, 2020.

Edna Clement Swan

OUR STREETS, OUR STORIES is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library's Department of Outreach Services that seeks to explore the Brooklyn that is and was, from the words of the community that lives here. Our hope is to create neighborhood-specific history archives based around interviews with Brooklyn residents. We seek to not only witness the change taking place all around us, but also to record and preserve the history of our neighborhoods before that history is forgotten. 

*Nominee, 2016 & 2018 Guides Association of New York City Apple Awards, Outstanding Achievement in Radio Program/Podcast

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