Date: Time Period: 1943 - 2012; 2012-05-04; Interview recorded: May 4, 2012Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.Dimension:
Total running time: 1:47:17
Creator: Jack Eichenbaum interviewed by Vishavpreet SembhiIdentifier: aql:23188 bwc-je-full-000005
Description: Jack Eichenbaum is 69 and grew up in Bayside, NY. He is the official "Queens Borough Historian" [http://flushingchamber.nyc/jack]. He left NYC to explore American and returned after 13 years, and at the age of 33 and settled in an apartment in the heart of Flushing and has been there for 34 years. This interview explores Jack's childhood, career, life in Flushing; and his experience of the demographic change of not only in Flushing, but Queens overall. Jack was born to a Polish family of Jewish immigrants; his father was from Warsaw (part of Russian pre WWI) and his mother was born in Southern Poland (part of Austria/Hungarian Empire). Jack's parents met right here in Flushing through a hiking club. Since retiring, Jack, with his urban geologist skills has offered public and custom walking tours of Queens, NY and its neighborhoods. He discusses the diversity of Flushing, how it started, the changes over time, and what it has become today. Throughout the interview he discusses the movement of the Chinese, Koreans, and Taiwanese population into Flushing, making it a primary location for these immigrant groups. Jack explains how living around such diversified culture, makes everyday life dynamic and exciting.
Creator : Jack Eichenbaum interviewed by Vishavpreet Sembhi
Date : Time Period: 1943 - 2012; 2012-05-04; Interview recorded: May 4, 2012
Summary/Description : Jack Eichenbaum is 69 and grew up in Bayside, NY. He is the official "Queens Borough Historian" [http://flushingchamber.nyc/jack]. He left NYC to explore American and returned after 13 years, and at the age of 33 and settled in an apartment in the heart of Flushing and has been there for 34 years. This interview explores Jack's childhood, career, life in Flushing; and his experience of the demographic change of not only in Flushing, but Queens overall. Jack was born to a Polish family of Jewish immigrants; his father was from Warsaw (part of Russian pre WWI) and his mother was born in Southern Poland (part of Austria/Hungarian Empire). Jack's parents met right here in Flushing through a hiking club. Since retiring, Jack, with his urban geologist skills has offered public and custom walking tours of Queens, NY and its neighborhoods. He discusses the diversity of Flushing, how it started, the changes over time, and what it has become today. Throughout the interview he discusses the movement of the Chinese, Koreans, and Taiwanese population into Flushing, making it a primary location for these immigrant groups. Jack explains how living around such diversified culture, makes everyday life dynamic and exciting.
Subject : Neighborhoods; Communities; Immigrants; Multiculturalism; Children
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