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Paul Kerzner, Second Full Interview

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Paul Kerzner
Date: Time Period: 1950-2013; 2013-05-24; Interview recorded: May 24 2013 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital audio recorder digital recorder. Dimension: Total running time: 2:44:40
Creator: Paul Kerzner interviewed by Grace Sullivan and Chia-Yin Leslie Tu Identifier: aql:26263 kerzner-paul-full2

Description: Paul discusses his civic engagement in the community of Ridgewood. While riding the bus in the early 1970s to law school to downtown Brooklyn and seeing the burnt out neighborhoods, Paul decided he did not want to see this landscape crossover into Ridgewood. Paul discusses tree planting project, Con Ed's Renaissance Housing Program, the Greater Ridgewood Restoration Corporation, his collaboration with Rosemary Gunning, and the benefits of preservation.

Collection : aql:16085; aql:20455

Creator : Paul Kerzner interviewed by Grace Sullivan and Chia-Yin Leslie Tu

Date : Time Period: 1950-2013; 2013-05-24; Interview recorded: May 24 2013

Summary/Description : Paul discusses his civic engagement in the community of Ridgewood. While riding the bus in the early 1970s to law school to downtown Brooklyn and seeing the burnt out neighborhoods, Paul decided he did not want to see this landscape crossover into Ridgewood. Paul discusses tree planting project, Con Ed's Renaissance Housing Program, the Greater Ridgewood Restoration Corporation, his collaboration with Rosemary Gunning, and the benefits of preservation.

Subject : Historic preservation; Legislation; Housing rehabilitation; Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc.

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Ridgewood, Queens, NY Queens (New York, N.Y.) Ridgewood (New York, N.Y.) Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital audio recorder digital recorder.; Total running time: 2:44:40

Identifier : aql:26263 kerzner-paul-full2

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Historic preservation; Legislation; Housing rehabilitation; Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc.

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