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Jenny Verano and Abe Vilensky, Full Interview

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano
Date: Time Period: 1946 - 2011; 2011-08-01; Interview recorded: August 1 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:38:05
Creator: Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano interviewed by Kyoko Aoki Identifier: aql:20581 vilensky_verano_full

Description: Jenny Verano came to Queens from Colombia in 1964 and moved to Woodside 43 years ago. Abe Vilensky first moved to Woodside around 1946, subsequently moved to Bayside to raise his kids, and returned to Woodside about 20 years ago. Abe and Jenny are both very active volunteers at the Sunnyside Community Services Center for Active Older Adults (the Center) where they met about 14 years ago. They are good friends and work together to provide bilingual English and Spanish services to the members of the Center. In this interview, Abe and Jenny discuss the changes to the Woodside/ Sunnyside community and shifting demographics, as well as their involvement with the Center.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20684

Creator : Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano interviewed by Kyoko Aoki

Date : Time Period: 1946 - 2011; 2011-08-01; Interview recorded: August 1 2011

Summary/Description : Jenny Verano came to Queens from Colombia in 1964 and moved to Woodside 43 years ago. Abe Vilensky first moved to Woodside around 1946, subsequently moved to Bayside to raise his kids, and returned to Woodside about 20 years ago. Abe and Jenny are both very active volunteers at the Sunnyside Community Services Center for Active Older Adults (the Center) where they met about 14 years ago. They are good friends and work together to provide bilingual English and Spanish services to the members of the Center. In this interview, Abe and Jenny discuss the changes to the Woodside/ Sunnyside community and shifting demographics, as well as their involvement with the Center.

Subject : Motion picture theaters; Communities; Neighborhoods; Synagogues; Shopping; Cultural pluralism; Apartments; Moving, Household; Families; Ethnic restaurants; Senior centers; Libraries; Emigration and immigration; Sunnyside Community Services (Sunnyside, New York, N.Y.)

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: Woodside, Queens, NY Woodside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:38:05

Identifier : aql:20581 vilensky_verano_full

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Motion picture theaters; Communities; Neighborhoods; Synagogues; Shopping; Cultural pluralism; Apartments; Moving, Household; Families; Ethnic restaurants; Senior centers; Libraries; Emigration and immigration; Sunnyside Community Services (Sunnyside, New York, N.Y.)

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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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