Nettie and Lisa Stewart, Clip 5: Flushing Creek
Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Nettie and Lisa Stewart
Date: Time Period: 1951 - 2011; 2011-10-21; Interview recorded: October 21 2011
Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:02:08
Creator: Nettie and Lisa Stewart interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Identifier: aql:20645 stewart_nettie_lisa_clip5
Description: Nettie and Lisa Stewart say Flushing Creek was polluted for years until the Sky View shopping and housing development was built on its banks. Before that, residents in nearby Bland Houses could smell the polluted waterway from inside their apartments. Despite the pollution, they knew people who used to swim in Flushing Creek.
Creator :
Nettie and Lisa Stewart interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Date :
Time Period: 1951 - 2011; 2011-10-21; Interview recorded: October 21 2011
Summary/Description :
Nettie and Lisa Stewart say Flushing Creek was polluted for years until the Sky View shopping and housing development was built on its banks. Before that, residents in nearby Bland Houses could smell the polluted waterway from inside their apartments. Despite the pollution, they knew people who used to swim in Flushing Creek.
Subject :
Pollution; Fishing; James A. Bland Houses
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 Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:02:08
Identifier :
aql:20645 stewart_nettie_lisa_clip5
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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