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Amy Starecheski is an oral historian and cultural anthropologist who has lived in Mott Haven, on 139th<\/sup> Street, since 2001. Her grandmother and great-grandmother lived on St. Ann’s Avenue, and her mother grew up in the Bronx. She has been a member of El Girasol Garden, Padre Plaza, and (most recently) Brook Park. She is married and has a 12 year old daughter. She teaches oral history<\/a>\u00a0at Columbia University and has a PhD from the CUNY Grad Center.<\/p>\n

Her last project was with former squatters on the Lower East Side who were turning their buildings into low-income co-ops. She created\u00a0an archive<\/a>\u00a0of interviews with them that is available to the public through NYU, a book (Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City<\/em><\/a>, 2016, University of Chicago Press), and a podcast about the story (99% Invisible, Episode # 261,\u00a0Squatters of the Lower East Side<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy Starecheski is an oral historian and cultural anthropologist who has lived in Mott Haven, on 139th Street, since 2001. Her grandmother and great-grandmother lived on St. Ann’s Avenue, and her mother grew up in the Bronx. She has been a member of El Girasol Garden, Padre Plaza, and (most recently) Brook Park. She is … <\/p>\n

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