Our Streets, Our Stories

Brooklyn Public Library

OUR STREETS, OUR STORIES is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library's Department of Outreach Services that seeks to explore the Brooklyn that is and was, from the words of the community that lives here. Our hope is to create neighborhood-specific history archives based around interviews with Brooklyn residents. We seek to not only witness the change taking place all around us, but also to record and preserve the history of our neighborhoods before that history is forgotten.

  • 59 minutes 27 seconds
    Edna Clement Swan
    Edna Clement Swan is interviewed by Lina Chang over the phone at the Central Library on February 14th, 2020.
    14 February 2020, 11:13 pm
  • 35 minutes 48 seconds
    Frangena Johnson
    Frangena Johnson is interviewed by Lina Chang over the phone at the Central Library on February 5th, 2020.
    12 February 2020, 6:44 pm
  • 12 minutes 30 seconds
    Saundra Sirmans
    Saundra Sirmans is interviewed by Lina Chang over the phone at the Central Library on January 30th, 2020.
    5 February 2020, 2:17 pm
  • 51 minutes 24 seconds
    Bilal Ndongo
    Bilal Ndongo is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Brownsville Library on January 22nd, 2020.
    4 February 2020, 8:17 pm
  • 27 minutes 9 seconds
    Robert Anthony Gibbons
    Robert Anthony Gibbons is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on January 15th, 2020.
    21 January 2020, 9:47 pm
  • 14 minutes 23 seconds
    Jennifer R. Williams
    Jennifer R. Williams is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on January 8th, 2020. Image still from video, courtesy of Jennifer R. Williams.
    15 January 2020, 8:24 pm
  • 16 minutes 34 seconds
    Ras Omeil Morgan
    Ras Omeil Morgan is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on December 17th, 2019.
    23 December 2019, 5:00 pm
  • 7 minutes 31 seconds
    Lawrence James
    Lawrence James is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on November 20th, 2019.
    25 November 2019, 8:21 pm
  • 4 minutes 36 seconds
    Aretha Campbell
    Aretha Campbell is interviewed by Taina Evans at the Central Library on October 26th, 2019.
    16 November 2019, 12:00 am
  • 5 minutes 1 second
    Bernadette OKeKe
    Bernadette OKeKe is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on October 26th, 2019.
    16 November 2019, 12:00 am
  • 2 minutes 55 seconds
    Marsha Desormeaux
    Marsha Desormeaux is interviewed by Lina Chang at the Central Library on October 26th, 2019.
    16 November 2019, 12:00 am
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