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Nilda Tirado, Clip 4: Real Estate Developers in Waldheim

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Nilda Tirado
Date: Time Period: 1950 - 2010; 2010-06-23; Interview recorded: June 23 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:47
Creator: Nilda Tirado interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20601 tirado_nilda_clip4

Description: Ms. Tirado describes how real estate developers frequently come to take photos of the house, and try to convince them to sell it. After the adjacent house was sold, a developer tried to convince her to let them expand the driveway onto Ms. Tirado's property. When she refused, the developer gave them a hard time. She decided to put up a fence on her property before the other house sold. Developers frequently illegally expand onto other people's property.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20683

Creator : Nilda Tirado interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1950 - 2010; 2010-06-23; Interview recorded: June 23 2010

Summary/Description : Ms. Tirado describes how real estate developers frequently come to take photos of the house, and try to convince them to sell it. After the adjacent house was sold, a developer tried to convince her to let them expand the driveway onto Ms. Tirado's property. When she refused, the developer gave them a hard time. She decided to put up a fence on her property before the other house sold. Developers frequently illegally expand onto other people's property.

Subject : Real estate development; Real estate developers; Homeowners; Fences

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: Waldheim, 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 Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:02:47

Identifier : aql:20601 tirado_nilda_clip4

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Real estate development; Real estate developers; Homeowners; Fences

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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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