Orestes Gonzalez, Clip 1: Moving to Long Island City

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Orestes Gonzalez

Date: Time Period: 1990's; 2019-01-22; Interview recorded: January 22, 2019 Material: Digital audio recording made using unknown digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:06

Creator: Orestes Gonzalez interviewed by Fran Kipnis Identifier: aql:34039 gonzalez-orestes-clip1

Description: Orestes Gonzalez talks about buying and fixing up a boarded up house in Long Island City in 1991. The neighborhood had lots of "old timer" Italian and Irish, and there were the Queensbridge projects, his house cost $148,000, and his original neighbor had been a Broadway dancer.

Title : Orestes Gonzalez, Clip 1: Moving to Long Island City

Collection : aql:20455; aql:34077

Creator : Orestes Gonzalez interviewed by Fran Kipnis

Date : Time Period: 1990's; 2019-01-22; Interview recorded: January 22, 2019

Summary/Description : Orestes Gonzalez talks about buying and fixing up a boarded up house in Long Island City in 1991. The neighborhood had lots of "old timer" Italian and Irish, and there were the Queensbridge projects, his house cost $148,000, and his original neighbor had been a Broadway dancer.

Subject : Housing; Neighborhoods; Industrial districts; Real estate development; Long Island City Artists Inc.

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Orestes Gonzalez

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

Coverage : Locations discussed: Long Island City, Queens, NY Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using unknown digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:03:06

Identifier : aql:34039 gonzalez-orestes-clip1