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In this interview Ana Alameda discusses her experience as a migrant to New York City from Puerto Rico as a child in the 1960’s, the way the city has changed over time, and raising children in the city. Particular detail is given to her neighborhood’s…

In this interview Ana Soler discusses life as a migrant from Puerto Rico to New York City and Puerto Rican culture in the city, growing up in a working class family with a strict father, and raising children in New York City. Particular detail is…

This is the first of a 3-part interview. Carol Zakaluk, 62 years old at the time of the interview, is a third-generation native New Yorker whose connection to the Mott Haven neighborhood is tied to the properties she inherited from her grandparents…

This is the first of a 3-part interview. Carol Zakaluk, 62 years old at the time of the interview, is a third-generation native New Yorker whose connection to the Mott Haven neighborhood is tied to the properties she inherited from her grandparents…

This is the third of a 3-part interview. Carol Zakaluk, 62 years old at the time of the interview, is a third-generation native New Yorker whose connection to the Mott Haven neighborhood is tied to the properties she inherited from her grandparents…

In the interview Danny Chervoni discusses growing up in poverty as one of 11 children in New York City, his drug addiction and recovery, and his childhood memories in parks with his friends and hearing some early hip hop’s most famous MC’s.…

Maximino Rivera, 68 years old at the time of the interview, was a migrant to New York City from Puerto Rico at 13 years old. He discusses the sadness and shock he felt as an immigrant adjusting to a new place as a child, his dealings with corruption…

Norman Davis and Thelma Jackson, friends since childhood and now both in their 80s, are interviewed together in this recording. Thelma Jackson was born in Pennsylvania to Caribbean immigrants with roots in Cuba and Barbados. Her father worked on the…

Norman Davis was born in 1925 and was 82 at the time of this recording. He discusses his family’s roots as landowners in in South Carolina (paternal) and Baltimore (maternal) and his parents’ journeys to Harlem and Brooklyn. He discusses tensions…

Gordie and Ray L’Dera are a married couple in their 80’s at the time of the interview. They discuss their own childhoods and moving to New York City as young adults, raising a child in the city, and working with youth as theater teachers. Particular…
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