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Jenny Verano and Abe Vilensky, Clip 4: Getting an Apartment in Woodside

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: 0:00:54
Creator: Abe Vilensky and Jenny Verano interviewed by Kyoko Aoki Identifier: aql:20623 vilensky_verano_clip4

Description: Mr. Vilensky describes getting an apartment in Woodside in 1946, through his sister-in-law's father who worked in the building. It was 3-room apartment rented for $53 a month. He then bought a house in Bayside for $10,000, where his granddaughter still lives.

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 : Mr. Vilensky describes getting an apartment in Woodside in 1946, through his sister-in-law's father who worked in the building. It was 3-room apartment rented for $53 a month. He then bought a house in Bayside for $10,000, where his granddaughter still lives.

Subject : Apartments; Moving, Household; Families

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: 0:00:54

Identifier : aql:20623 vilensky_verano_clip4

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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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