Susie Lee, Clip 1: Comparing Downtown Flushing to Times Square
Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Susie Lee
Date: Time Period: 1980 - 2010; 2010-06-24; Interview recorded: June 24 2010
Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:01:37
Creator: Susie Lee interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Identifier: aql:20518 lee_susie_clip1
Description: Susie Lee compares the downtown area around Roosevelt and Main Street to Times Square, and liked it better when Flushing was quieter. She won't return to live in her old neighborhood unless she has to. She describes that Flushing has a bigger Chinatown and Koreatown than in Manhattan. Her family is Korean and she says Korean businesses have moved north and east from the downtown Flushing area, along Northern Boulevard.
Creator :
Susie Lee interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Date :
Time Period: 1980 - 2010; 2010-06-24; Interview recorded: June 24 2010
Summary/Description :
Susie Lee compares the downtown area around Roosevelt and Main Street to Times Square, and liked it better when Flushing was quieter. She won't return to live in her old neighborhood unless she has to. She describes that Flushing has a bigger Chinatown and Koreatown than in Manhattan. Her family is Korean and she says Korean businesses have moved north and east from the downtown Flushing area, along Northern Boulevard.
Subject :
Korean American business enterprises
Rights :
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 0:01:37
Identifier :
aql:20518 lee_susie_clip1
Rights Notice
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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